iOS Safari scroll to top does not work on certain pages. Why?

Question

Disclaimer: The site has meanwhile been updated, this issue does not occur anymore with the new version of the design.

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Answer 1

-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch is the problem. If you use that anywhere in your CSS, the scroll-to-top shortcut stops working. This is a known problem with iOS 5, there is no workaround unfortunately. Hopefully it will be fixed in iOS 6.

Answer 2

You can have something similar to firebug buy using Safari and specifying your web-agent as iPhone. But I'm not sure you will have the same webkit engine.

You can also activate the Developers Tools for Safari in Settings > Safari > Advanced.

Good luck.