iphone - File Formats Supported by UIWebView

Question

What are all the file formats supported by UIWebView? In my testing, I found that it supports XLS, DOC, PPT, PDF but not XLSX, and DOCX, RTF.

It supports image files like, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, not sure about TIFF or

Exactly, what all types are supported is not clear...

The UIWebView documentation also doesn't state it clearly.

Could someone please help?

Answer 1

A Technical note is available on Apple Website about file formats supported by UIWebView:

Since iPhone OS 2.2.1

• Excel (.xls)
• Keynote (.key.zip)
• Numbers (.numbers.zip)
• Pages (.pages.zip)
• PDF (.pdf)
• Powerpoint (.ppt)
• Word (.doc)

Since iPhone OS 3.0

• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• Rich Text Format Directory (.rtfd.zip)
• Keynote '09 (.key)
• Numbers '09 (.numbers)
• Pages '09 (.pages)