Apple is developing some improvements for Safari that’ll make the mobile browser’s scrolling smoother across websites. Hacker News and Daring Fireball report Apple plans to make scrolling as good as it is with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
There’s currently an inconsistent user experience on Safari. AMP pages have superior scrolling since they don’t have the browser’s inertia. To address this, AMP’s team actually requested Apple make the scroll inertia for AMP pages the same as on regular sites.
Apple responded by saying it’d improve Safari so that all scrolling is as smooth as it is on AMP pages. That decision was made since scrolling in AMP is already similar to other implementations from Apple. Safari just happens to be notably slower than those implementations.
When the next version of Safari arrives, scrolling should be improved.
