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Summary:

UIWebView gives no access to any keyboard customization beyond the HTML attributes for inputs. When embedding a web view in an app I would like to be given the control offered by components such as UITextField. Specifically the ability to remove or change the keyboard's accessory view.

Steps to Reproduce:

Search the developer documentation for some way to override keyboard properties within SDK restrictions.

Expected Results:

Have some way to take control of said properties.

Actual Results:

Find lots of unofficially ways that violate the SDK to do it, but none that I can actually ship. Cry a little.

Regression:

Especially since using UIWebView was promoted as a good way to write a Rich Text editor with the WWDC 2011 video "Rich Text Editing in Safari on iOS", I think this is a really good feature to add. Otherwise I need to roll my own editor just to get bold and italic styles, which would be crazy overkill. And since I suspect you're using features such as execCommand and a UIWebView for Mail's editor, I would really appreciate having the same functionality available to me.