javascript - Stop Images from loading in UIWebView

Question

I have a website that I wish to load in a UIWebView, but it is full of images and takes ages to load. The images are useless, and only serve to reduce the usability on the iPhone. I dont own the website so I cannot change the site's actual code.

The webpage is heavily linked in to the web with ASP.NET and AJAX (needs external files), so i dont think it is possible to have it load an HTML string.

I want to stop the images from loading altogether. So how do i block them? Change the HTML code as its loading somehow, or block images from being loaded?

Answer 1

I have 3 thoughts.

1. Use a proxy to filter the HTML
2. Filter the HTML yourself by downloading it first
3. Just download the html and load it using a file:// URL. This will most likely prevent the image references from being resolved - though it will leave ugly squares everywhere