Reinventing The iPad

2 points by alexch 16 years ago | 1 comment

alexch 16 years ago |

If you’ve ever used the iPad or iPhone, you’ve probably noticed the absence of scrollbars. They don’t exist! Mobile Safari lets you "scroll" the entire page by sliding your finger around, but all other scrollbars are simply discarded. Essentially, we needed to reinvent the native iPad/iPhone scrolling, flicking, and bounceback behavior in JavaScript. Here's how we did it.

alexch 16 years ago |

If you’ve ever used the iPad or iPhone, you’ve probably noticed the absence of scrollbars. They don’t exist! Mobile Safari lets you "scroll" the entire page by sliding your finger around, but all other scrollbars are simply discarded. Essentially, we needed to reinvent the native iPad/iPhone scrolling, flicking, and bounceback behavior in JavaScript. Here's how we did it.