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Re:Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua by yason on Thursday October 01, 2009 @02:08AM (#854415)
I wonder if iPhone's browser does XML and XSLT, like all modern browsers do?

It happens that XSLT is Turing complete, and the browser can certainly download stuff from teh internet. This could mean that merely embedding the browser into your iPhone app effectively turns it into an interpreter for programs downloaded from anywhere. Sure it's sandboxed but technically that shouldn't matter. And I'm sure you could introduce hooks to the browser from native side, to make something interesting out of it.

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Re:Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua by ptomato on Thursday October 01, 2009 @03:01AM (#854464)
Or, you know, javascript. Which the iPhone's browser definitely supports. And which isn't governed by the terms of the SDK anyway.
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Re:Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua by blasdel on Thursday October 01, 2009 @03:14AM (#854482)
Why the fuck would you bother with XML wankery when you're given a top-of-the-line JIT-compiling javascript engine?
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Re:Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua by tedunangst on Thursday October 01, 2009 @08:31AM (#854795)
Would code downloaded and run by the browser be code that is run by Apple's builtin interpreter?
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