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The rich text situation is somewhat different on the iPhone than it is on OSX/Cocoa. There is no NSTextView, for instance. The only "easy" rich text solution on

The rich text situation is somewhat different on the iPhone than it is on OSX/Cocoa. There is no NSTextView, for instance. The only "easy" rich text solution on iPhoneOS is a UIWebView - which isn't exactly cheap in terms of CPU utilization. Ironically, a visual effect such as a page curl is likely far cheaper due to the GPU support than reflowing a bunch of rich text.

pieter 17y ago
I think that's changing in the iPad SDK
- st3fan 17y ago
  It is nice to have Core Text, but will they also provide it on the iPhone?
- BigZaphod 17y ago
  Could be... grumble grumble nda grumble can't say for sure..... :P
DLWormwood 17y ago
Just to clarify the above comment, there is a UITextView, but it's one typeface/size only.
- BigZaphod 17y ago
  My comment was referring to NSTextView which is present in OSX/Cocoa. NSTextView is extremely powerful and feature-rich. UITextView is.... not so much, of course. :)
GHFigs 17y ago
The only "easy" rich text solution on iPhoneOS is a UIWebView The ePub format is based on XHTML, so it stands to reason that it will use something more like this.