Scrolling Changes Coming to Mobile Safari in Future Update

[Poontaco]

From what I understand, it has nothing to do with AMP, that is just a coincidence. AMP exposed the inconsistent behaviour in Safari and the Safari developers decided, after revisiting the reason for the different scrolling behaviour, that there was no reason to keep it. Safari just loses its peculiar behaviour in favour of what every other app already does.

Exactly.
Most of the articles written about this aren't properly explaining things - hence the confusion by most people.

 

[rohanmerchant]

So Safari will FINALLY become more snappy!

I used to use a jailbreak tweak that allowed for faster scrolling. I never realized how slow scrolling was in Safari by default, until I installed this tweak. I'm surprised that Apple doesn't allow scrolling speed customization.

Well if you don't want to wait or use a jailbreak you can use this app www.fasterscroll.com

 

[RedGala]

I HATE the scrolling in AMP pages and tap the chain icon to load full page just for Apple's awesome scrolling. But it would be damn funny to know that Apple wants to regress in this area and join the ranks of Android for inaccurate and uncontrolled web-page scrolling.

Absolutely. A lot of these crap acceleration pages make scrolling feel disgustingly unnatural. You feel like the screen is oversensitive and your feedback is not related to the screen's motion in the same way that your fingers pushing a sheet of paper are directly related in motion.

 

[dysamoria]

I'd like to see Apple allow the iPhone to be completely drive by a stylus. One innovative thing they could do with that is introduce scroll up and down arrows to allow you to move up and down the page. Scrolling using a finger seems old school to me.

Is that a joke? Bluetooth keyboards have arrow keys and styluses for normal use is what's considered "old school". You CAN use a stylus in iOS if you want.
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Does anybody remember Safari scrolling prior to iOS 7?

I had an iPhone with iOS 4 on it and in Safari it scrolled quickly and smoothly using intertia type scrolling.
It would respond to how quickly you swiped the screen or how long of a swipe you made.
It was fantastic!

Then I upgraded to the 5s with iOS 7 and they had "upgraded" it to the sluggish, choppy, chunky style scrolling we see today and it was horrible!
It sounds like they're finally going back to the pre-iOS 7 style Safari scrolling and that's great news!

I avoided iOS 7 like the plague it is (and iOS 8). Ios 9 I couldn't avoid with a new device. As far as i can tell, Safari scrolling hasn't been one of my "Apple jumped the shark" complaints about GUI ruination, post ios 6.x. Only in AMP.

 

[Tech198]

Wouldn't this mean then all we sites must offer support for it? It's its a technology from Google, them u better believe they have some sort of tracking buried within this thing.

Not saying they do, but its from Google.. you never know.

 

[jasonsmith_88]

Wouldn't this mean then all we sites must offer support for it?

No, because it's built into iOS Safari. Apple are changing the way scroll/flick panning works - specifically the acceleration and easing. No one has to "support" anything. To be clear, this has nothing to do with Google or Google AMP.

They're doing this because the default scrolling behaves differently to containers with `overflow: scroll` and
`-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch` properties. The former, despite being default, is inconsistent with the rest of iOS. So Apple is going to make the latter default.

It's its a technology from Google

It's not a technology from Google. It's a technology from Apple. Google just happens to use it for Google AMP, millions of other website use it too.

u better believe they have some sort of tracking buried within this thing.

If you don't like being tracked, don't use the internet. Tracking user scroll behaviour is trivial and anyone can do it with any one of the thousands of web analytics tools available today.

Not saying they do, but its from Google.. you never know.

Again, it's not from Google, but they can track your scroll behaviour regardless.