Main Thread Loading of Local UIWebView

gistfile1.m

  // loadRequest
  UIWebView *webView    = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds];
  NSURL *htmlPath       = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"about" 
                                                                                 ofType:@"html"] isDirectory:NO];
  NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:htmlPath];
  
  [webView loadRequest:request];
  [self.view addSubview:webView];
  
  [webView release];

  // loadHTMLString
  UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds];
  NSURL *htmlPath    = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"about" 
                                                                                 ofType:@"html"] isDirectory:NO];
  NSString *htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:htmlPath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
  
  [webView loadHTMLString:htmlString baseURL:nil];
  [self.view addSubview:webView];
  
  [webView release];

  // loadHTMLData
  NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"about" 
                                                                                ofType:@"html"]];
  
  [webView loadData:data MIMEType:@"text/html" textEncodingName:@"html" baseURL:nil];
  [self.view addSubview:webView];
 
  [webView release];