Displaying ppt, doc, and xls in UIWebView doesn't work but pdf does

Question

It looks like a few people on stackoverflow get this to work but their code isn\'t posted. I\'m using

[web loadData:data MIMEType:MIMEType textEncodingName         


        

Answer 1

Have you tried using the following documented method?:

-(void)loadDocument:(NSString*)documentName inView:(UIWebView*)webView
{
    NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:documentName ofType:nil];
    NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [webView loadRequest:request];
}

// Calling -loadDocument:inView:

[self loadDocument:@"mydocument.rtfd.zip" inView:self.myWebview];

It works for these in iPhone OS 2.2.1: Excel (.xls) Keynote (.key.zip) Numbers (.numbers.zip) Pages (.pages.zip) PDF (.pdf) Powerpoint (.ppt) Word (.doc)

iPhone OS 3.0 supports these additional document types: Rich Text Format (.rtf) Rich Text Format Directory (.rtfd.zip) Keynote '09 (.key) Numbers '09 (.numbers) Pages '09 (.pages)