Glitch in forward/back on iPhone

[philgyford]

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2010/07/06/web-page-iphone.php#c316806

"There’s a small anomaly I’ve found when using “Today’s Guardian” in either the Home Screen or in Safari on the iPhone 4 (IOS 4.2.1): sometimes when I swipe to go to the next article the page appears to slide twice into position and it looks like an article has been skipped, but it’s just reloaded itself instantly with the sliding motion. It doesn’t happen every time but it’s a bit disconcerting when it does because I imagine I have missed an article and swipe back only to find I haven’t.

I can’t find any consistency in the problem; at one point it looked like it was only happening when I just wanted to skip an article without scrolling down it, but that doesn’t happen each time it seems, and it occasionally happens when I’ve get to the bottom of an article and am swiping to the next page. It sometimes also appears to double load when swiping backwards.

I have wondered it if could be connected to Guardian ads being loaded at the bottom of the page, as I’ve noticed them changing while the article is already there?"

[philgyford]

It seems most noticeable to me when swiping drags the article down so it pulls away from the top of the browser window. In springing back to the top, it seems as if it usually results in a page sliding across twice. Still no idea why.