Among the novelties brought by iOS 5 is momentum scrolling, a function that will allow application developers to modify the way we scrill in web applications. Basically, this momentum scrolling or auto scrolling, as others call it, allows the user to swipe on the page and the scrolling continues even when the user takes his finger off the screen. Using momentum scrolling, we can reach from the top to the bottom of the page by scrolling with a single gesture, and this function is already available for applications from the App Store, but not for web applications.
The new function will be implemented through CSS along with the possibility to refresh web applications through a pulldown, just like in the Twitter application. You can see a demo of this function here but it will only work if you have iOS 5 beta 2 installed in your terminal, otherwise the scrolling will be as normal as possible. Using this new function I could for example include in the iDevice.ro application the possibility to scroll the entire page with a simple gesture or I could include the option to refresh the page with a simple pulldown.
