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Why not create an iPhone app, which is simply a WebKit view dedicated to your web app?

The client see's it as a "iPhone app" you can host/sell it in the store, but it's really just a web app.

(Maybe there's a restriction on this, but I can't see why there would be...)

Its my understanding that Apple would like require an "explicit" rating, since you could change your web page to have pictures of an "inappropriate" nature.

So this doesn't solve the problem.

Same restrictions apply: the web view has a limited set of functionality and there is no way to communicate between the native cocoa part of the app and the javascript part running in the web view.

simply untrue - its easy to communicate between javascript and native cocoa code. Take a look at the UIWebView and UIWebViewDelegate documentations here - http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi... and here http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi...

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