How to safely shut down a loading UIWebView in viewWillDisappear?

Question

I have a view containing a UIWebView which is loading a google map (so lots of javascript etc). The problem I have is that if the user hits the \'back\' button on the nav ba

Answer 1

I had a similar problem to this using a UIWebView in OS3 - this description was a good starting point, however I found than simply nil'ing out the web view delegate before releasing the webView solved my problem.

Reading the sample code (the accepted answer - above) - it seems like a lot of overkill. E.g. [webView release] and webView = nil lines do exactly the same thing given the way the author describes the variable is declared (so you don't need both). I'm also not fully convinced by all the retain and release lines either - but I guess your mileage will vary.