iOS like "rubber band" scrolling in Lion - Safari

Well, aint' that a kick in the head. I mean, yeah, it's great, and I certainly appreciate it... but Safari is the one app where I notice it most (and am annoyed by it.) LOL

What the fudge?

It doesn't seem to worn in iTunes either.

But it works in every other app I have tried - Hallelujah!

How about Chrome? Am I doing something wrong or it doesn't apply there either?

I have the Safari Webkit source so I'll see what I can look into. Maybe do a custom build there, or a pList preference.

Actually, the webView's parent is scrollview. I think that we can just tell the parent to disable elasticity on veiwWillAppear, or in many other areas. There is a custom ScrollView.h in the source tree. But there also is this class called ScrollableArea.h. So we might have to override a different class to fix this for Safari.

Here's some info from the release notes (my emphasis in bold):

2011-10-10 Andreas Kling <kling@webkit.org>

Shrink RenderLayer and ScrollableArea.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69759

Reviewed by Antti Koivisto.

Rearrange the members of RenderLayer and its base class ScrollableArea

to maximize struct packing, shrinking RenderLayer by one CPU word on

32-bit (and two on 64-bit.)

This reduces memory consumption by 134 kB (on 64-bit) when loading the

full HTML5 spec.

* platform/ScrollableArea.h:

(WebCore::ScrollableArea::verticalScrollElasticity):

(WebCore::ScrollableArea::horizontalScrollElasticity):

Yeah no kidding - it's gone viral. Do a Google search on NSScrollViewRubberbanding and you'll see that is has spread like wildfire. Many thanks Alex.

I also covered it (on the 9th 😉) when folks here figured it out: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57431192-263/disable-elastic-scrolling-in-o s-x/

Topher:

defaults write -g NSTopherBeardEnabled -bool false

: D

I jest, I jest. Thanks for spreading the word man.

Hah! I've trimmed it up a bit, but its still there. Thanks! 😀

Indeed it's annoying, hope apple supplies some more preferences when desides to change such GUI behaviors. 21" or more inches bouncing!! oh!

I have. We need everyone else to as well.

http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/10/disable-elastic-rubber-band-scrolling-in-mac-os-x /

Yup, it's being reported.

Also, it really should be:

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -boolean false

Solution for iTunes discovered:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes disable-elastic-scroll -bool YES

Still no known solution for Safari. Yet.

Alex Zavatone:

Reasonably speaking, how is

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -boolean false

different from

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0

?

Just curious.