Is there a bug with using InnerHTML inside a UIWebView within a native iPhone application?

Question

I have a fairly large HTML/JS/CSS application that works great when running as a web application with Safari on the iPhone.

When running this same application in an UIWe

Answer 1

You should take a look at http://blog.techno-barje.fr/post/2010/10/06/UIWebView-secrets-part3-How-to-properly-call-ObjectiveC-from-Javascript.

It turns out that cancelling navigation as part of the -webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest: delegate method may cause issues with innerHTML. I updated our JS code to use the method recommended in that article and I haven't seen the innerHTML issue crop up in a while.