title: Is there any reason why we don't use subclasses of UIImageView?
body: <p>I'm currently trying to create a subclass of UIImageView in order to make it download its image from server asynchronously ;)</p>
  
  <p>I tried to do it by myself but I haven't gone very far yet :D</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, I looked around here and found this :</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.markj.net/iphone-asynchronous-table-image/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AsyncImageDownload</a></p>
  
  <p>I had a look at the code and the first which springs to mind is : why subclassing a UIView and not a UIImageView ?!?</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts ?</p>
  
  <p>Cheers mates,</p>
  
  <p>Gotye.</p>