Crash on iPad when changing <select> value quickly in UIWebView

Originator:mbaluta
Number:rdar://18837004 Date Originated:31-Oct-2014 04:04 PM
Status:Open Resolved:Duplicate of 18487570
Product:iOS Product Version:
Classification: Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
Applications with UIWebView built with XCode 6 often crash when changing <select> field value. It doesn't happen in Safari.

Steps to Reproduce:
To reproduce (on iPad):
1. Open UIWebView based application, i.e. Opera Mini or Chrome
2. Open http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_select
3. Change select field value few times without delays

Expected Results:
Smooth response, no crash

Actual Results:
Application crashes after few tries (sometimes immediately after first)

Version:
iOS 8.1 (12B410)

Notes:
I think it used to work fine with application built with XCode 5

Configuration:
iPad 3 (MD370PL/A)

Comments

Myself and a few others have reproduced this issue as well. Though this stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25908729/ios8-ipad-uiwebview-crashes-while-displaying-popover-when-user-taps-drop-down-li has a workaround that works very well to mitigate the crash, please update this when Apple responds :-)

By kaluza.simon at Jan. 8, 2015, 11:38 p.m. (reply...)

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