&gt; Nothing stops you from publishing a web browser that renders static HTML.<p>That would not remotely be a practical Web browser in 2015.<p>&gt; Language interpreters are forbidden to download any code from the internet, so you cannot use JS found on a web page in your own interpreter.<p>Which is a business decision.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why this is controversial; it&#x27;s well-established that many of the iOS restrictions are business-related. Note that I&#x27;m not even arguing here that those business-related restrictions are a bad thing.