If you look closely at the UITextViewLegacy methods, you'd see some references to styles and web objects. internally all the way up to iOS 7, the system was using WebKit for rendering! you'd set your styles using ObjC, that would turn to CSS behind the scenes. >>> - ThreadSky

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excbadacc.es • 104 days ago

If you look closely at the UITextViewLegacy methods, you'd see some references to styles and web objects. internally all the way up to iOS 7, the system was using WebKit for rendering! you'd set your styles using ObjC, that would turn to CSS behind the scenes. >>>

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excbadacc.es•104 days ago

Another favourite is the original https://Weather.app, with a cool origin story - starting out as an iPhone optimized version of the weather dashboard widget from OS X >>>

excbadacc.es•104 days ago

The shipped binary is just your regular Cocoa/ObjC MVC app. Some controllers, view and model objects. Nothing too interesting. BUT....

excbadacc.es•104 days ago

Scroll all the way at the bottom of WeatherController and we find webView:runJavaScriptAlertPanelWithMessage:
If you've done any WebKit work you know what this is: One of the WKUIDelegate's methods! 👌👌👌 (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/webuidelegate/1387807-webview)

excbadacc.es•104 days ago

And inside, a single NSLog();
Someone forgot to remove a debug print in the shipping binary! at some point this was a web app, running in a UIWebView... in fact Ken Kocienda and Richard Williamson mention this in their CHM interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xImAMe32Itg

excbadacc.es•104 days ago

Pretty cool to think how Apple itself reached out to the web technologies toolbox when they needed to ship something fast 🙃

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