I think scrolling is pretty fantastic on the iPhone, especially compared to what I’ve tried on Windows Mobile and my brief two-minute experience with a Palm Pre. It just feels more natural on the iPhone — until you hit a ridiculously long web page. You know the ones I’m talking about: the ones where your thumb looks like it’s spring-loaded, because all it’s doing for two minutes is alternating between Thumbs-Up and Oh-God-Who-Cut-My-Thumb-Off positions.
Aza Raskin, lead user experience designer for Mozilla, shared some thoughts on the matter yesterday. The new mobile Firefox browser, Fennec, is probably going to share the same “scrollbar-less” design as Safari mobile, but the Mozilla team isn’t entirely sure of what to do about long scrolling either. Aza proposed two interesting ways of approaching the problem: 1) making the scroll bar tangible after initiating scrolling 2) zooming out during a long scroll, and allowing subsequent panning of the entire page. I think I favour the first idea more, but check the ideas in full (including diagrams) on Aza’s blog.
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