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Important note for Webkit enabled applications in the Mac App Store

21 10 11 - 22:27 Do you use the htmlviewer in one of your applications you submit to the Mac App Store?
Your app can be rejected with this reason:

The application accesses the following location(s):

'~/Library/Icons/WebpageIcons.db*'

The application may be

* creating files
* writing files
* opening files for Read/Write access (instead of Read-Only access)

in the above location(s).

After you asked yourself why we are made responsible for what Apple's Webkit framework does, the question is: how to solve this?

Actually Apple has an article about this: How do I prevent my WebKit-enabled application from writing to the shared icon database?

And translating the code, it should be simply

dim u as NSUserDefaultsMBS = NSUserDefaultsMBS.standardUserDefaults
u.setBoolValue("WebIconDatabaseEnabled", false)

Put it somewhere in your startup code after plugin registration and before using a htmlviewer.