Scrolling in Safari on your iOS device will soon feel slightly different. Apple’s goal is to make all websites work the same.
Scrolling in Safari on your iPhone
Apple is making a minor change to the way websites scroll in the mobile version of Safari. This is all because of AMP pages. AMP is a technology from Google, whereby pages are optimized for mobile devices and load lightning fast. More and more websites are adopting this technology. So if you regularly visit websites in Safari on iOS, you will undoubtedly come across AMP pages.
Currently, however, scrolling AMP pages in the mobile version of Safari feels slightly different than scrolling on other pages. Apple will ensure that every page will scroll as an AMP page.
In a discussion on the website Hacker News AMP maker Malte Ubl announced that he had sent a bug report to Apple. Ubl explains that it has not implemented this type of scrolling itself. That is why Ubl asked whether Apple could make scrolling AMP pages the same as scrolling for normal pages. However, Apple turns it around. In the next version of Safari, all websites will scroll as AMP pages.
Another Hacker News user, who calls himself Om2, claims to be working on WebKit. This user explains that in Safari for iOS, scrolling feels different from anything else scrolling on the system. That was conceived on purpose years ago. The original reason for this different scrolling now wouldn’t be good enough to leave it that way. It is not clear what that reason was.
It’s not a big change for your Safari usage, but it’s a nice idea that everything will scroll the same in iOS soon. Safari is installed by default on iOS devices. Alternatives include Google Chrome and Opera Mini.
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