This is interesting - Apple will be introducing Sandboxing in March. It will also insist that any app sold in the App Store will have to implement it. From a user’s point of view, this could be good - it stops apps from being compromised and trashing your machine. However, these restrictions could force software companies reduce the functionality of apps they seen on the App Store.
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| Quote: Bare Bones’s Siegel faces a similar problem: “Our products will need to change in order to comply with the sandboxing rules,” he wrote. He pointed out a slew of features in BBEdit that may not be allowed once the sandboxing restrictions are in place—multi-file search and replace; text factory applications; multi-application automation using AppleScript or Automator; Open File by Name; disk browsers; live folder views in projects; SCM integration; bulk HTML tools operations (syntax check, site update); and lots of behind-the-scenes stuff such as scanning directories for ctags data. “Customers are expecting all of this to work, even in a sandboxed environment, so there are some real challenges there,” Siegel said. An open question is which of those features will be allowed by Apple (but with extra work required on Bare Bones’s part) and which will simply not fit within Apple’s vision of what an application should be allowed to do. | |
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I use BBEdit a lot - it’s my text editor of choice. I use it for my Freeway Actions work, as well as any general purpose writing. It’s an excellent tool for when you don”t want the distraction of styles, fonts etc..
And here is the bit that, for me, rings some alarm bells:
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| Quote: Flying Meat’s Mueller shares Pepperrell’s concerns. Sandboxing may “force me to remove one of my applications,” the screenshot utility FlySketch. His other apps, Acorn and VoodooPad, may need “to have features removed to stay in the store,” he said. Both apps currently load plug-ins, which Mueller says won’t be allowed with the sandboxing rules in place. Both also offer “extensive scripting support using python or JavaScript,” which will similarly not be permitted. | |
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The bit in bold is alarming. Freeway Actions are basically JavaScript which manipulate the tag stream as Freeway builds the HTML. Suddenly, it looks as if my Actions writing days could be numbered, especially if Apple decide at Mac OSX 10.8 then it will only allow Macs to run software bought on the App Store.
We will see what the developments are.
http://www.macworld.com/article/163391/ ... _wary.html
