What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer

Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by shakna on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:57AM (#13308084)

True, I guess one could concievably build your own update mechanism. But that's even more overhead than what is necessary for all the other browsers, who let you use their stores and update mechanism for much less than $100/developer/year.

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Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by bangonkeyboard on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:06AM (#13308111)

Sorry, I should have been specific: a comment on the Medium post that is TFA:

  This isn’t correct. Without paying the $100, you can’t get a certificate, and 
  without a certificate, you can’t sign an extension to build a safariextz.

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Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by shakna on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:47AM (#13308281)

So the situation is even worse than I thought? I mean, it is technically possible to install untrusted extensions, using xcode's self signing, but it isn't exactly straight forward and/or easy.

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Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by bangonkeyboard on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:18AM (#13308401)

Xcode is used for Safari App Extensions. Safari Extensions like RES are created in Safari's Extension Builder, which apparently balks without a signing certificate.

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Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by coldtea on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:17AM (#13308395)

>So the situation is even worse than I thought?

Or even better? Higher barrier to entry and more protection against crappy extensions, spam extensions, amateur hour, etc?

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