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

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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