Applications built for the iPhone would run in a sandbox separate from the device's OS to keep hackers out.
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
Jun 12, 2007 06:01 AM
Apple says it plans to let developers build Web 2.0 applications for the iPhone, a move that slightly opens the door to a mostly closed environment.
Steve Jobs made the announcement Monday towards the end of his opening keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Most of the speech was dedicated to new features in Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X that ships in October.
In offering mobile developers a bit of hope for getting their applications on the iPhone, Jobs said the combo cell phone and digital music player, which ships June 29, would contain a full-featured version of Safari 3. The latest upgrade of Apple's Web browser was released in beta for PCs and Macs on Monday.
As a result, developers could leverage the tools they currently use to build applications in Ajax, and run them through Safari to call iPhone services, Jobs said. Ajax is a development technique that uses JavaScript and XML to create interactive Web applications. Web 2.0 companies like Salesforce.com and Google make extensive use of the technique.
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