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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 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.


I think that's changing in the iPad SDK


It is nice to have Core Text, but will they also provide it on the iPhone?


Could be... grumble grumble nda grumble can't say for sure..... :P


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.


Just to clarify the above comment, there is a UITextView, but it's one typeface/size only.


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. :)




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