ios8 iPad uiwebview crashes while displaying popover when user taps drop down list HTML select tag

Question

On ios8 and iPad if a uiwebview is displaying a HTML page containing a drop down list

eg this page http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryh

Answer 1

I worked around it in the following way after noticing that sourceView is set in the cases where it crashes:

-(void)presentViewController:(UIViewController *)viewControllerToPresent animated:(BOOL)flag completion:(void (^)(void))completion {

  UIPopoverPresentationController* pres = viewControllerToPresent.popoverPresentationController;

  if(pres.sourceView) {
    //log the fact you are ignoring the call
  }
  else {
    [super presentViewController:viewControllerToPresent animated:flag completion:completion];
  }
}