Question

When embedding WebView in an application and loading html-pages in it, JavaScripts alert()/confirm()/etc. do not work.

Looking around in the documentation, there are no related settings in WebPreferences – the only thing that looks related are WebUIDelegates -(void)webView:runJavaScriptAlertPanelWithMessage:initiatedByFrame: etc … but implementing these would mean writing custom dialogs for these which seems pretty redundant…
I don’t need a custom WebUIDelegate and would like to continue just using the default one.

Surely there has to be some way to simply enable alert() et al, but how?

Answer 1

It turns out there is simply no default WebUIDelegate set – Apple seems to expect everyone to implement the same basic features for themselves.