UIImage and NSCoding iOS 5.1

Question

Prior to iOS 5.1 if you wanted to use NSCoding protocols with UIImage you had to do something like this.

@interface UIImage (NSCoding)

-(id)initWithCoder:(N         


        

Answer 1

Instead of using a category on UIImage, wouldn't it be cleaner to subclass it?

Then you could implement initWithCoder and encodeWithCoder and use UIImage's NSCoding implementation on 5.1 and your own on pre-5.1.