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Johan Brook
Personal blog · johanbrook.com/writingswebdesign
Johan Brook writes Johan, a personal blog at johanbrook.com about web and design. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Native style momentum scrolling to arrive in iOS5”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Johan Brook's blog for posts on browser behaviour, especially native momentum scrolling in iOS Safari and its performance effects on web pages with long lists.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Native style momentum scrolling to arrive in iOS53 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-25
What Hacker News says?
A few that I've bookmarked for such purposes: http://www.pascalvangemert.nl/ http://johanbrook.com/ http://dustandmold.net/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?”Submitted The Anatomy of a Perfect Web Site as a story · 81 points
HN discussionCheck this out: http://johanbrook.com/browsers/native-momentum-scrolling-ios... It can cause some quirky behavior so test it out carefully but you get much better performance with long lists if using it.
Comment linking /browsers/native-momentum-scrolling-ios-5/
on “How we make 5000 row tables fast in Streak”Submitted Native style momentum scrolling to arrive in iOS5 as a story · 79 points
HN discussionMobileSafari in iOS 5 supports momentum scrolling for scrollable individual parts of the page, here is a blog post about it: http://johanbrook.com/browsers/native-momentum-scrolling-ios... fixed positioning is also supported in iOS5. I am not sure why one would make an iOS5 only script-based scrolling simulation.
Comment linking /browsers/native-momentum-scrolling-ios-5/
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