Wishlist: more efficient scrolling for the iPhone

I've had an iPod Touch for about a month now, and I love it to death. But as humans tend to do, I'm going to be general in my praise and detailed in my gripes. But wait! because I have a proposed solution to my gripe.

My praise: it's awesome. It's still not my perfect iTablet, but I'm using it for the same reasons - I can access the net, in comfort, without using a keyboard.

My gripe: there is no way to jump to the bottom of a web page in Mobile Safari, or to quickly scroll through a very vertical page. This recently got especially tedious for me while I was skimming some archives of Daring Fireball, because some of his essays are rather long, and the link to the next article is always at the bottom. Flick, flick, flick, flick, flick, flick, to get to the bottom of the page. Link to next page, repeat.

Now when you put your finger on a page and start to drag it, a translucent scrollbar appears in the margin to give you a sense of where you are in the page. But you can't grab that scrollbar and use it for anything. It's more of a "scroll indicator."

So my proposed solution: why not let me grab it? If I put one finger on the page, the scrollbar appears, and then I can "pin it" under another finger (probably a finger of the opposite hand) and as long as I have it pinned, moving my finger to the bottom of the screen takes me to the absolute bottom of the web page, and the top of the screen, vice versa. The rate of the scrolling would be relative to the size of the page, just like a windowed app on a desktop computer. I'll be the first to say this isn't intuitive or even convenient - it's actually a little awkward. But dammit, it would work and it would be there for people who know about it.

My other gripe: there's no "Find in Page" with Mobile Safari. What's up with that? For about the first week I kept going to the magnifying glass when I wanted to find a word on the page. Even though I knew that button brings up Google, my brain kept trying to map my ⌘-F reflex to something. I don't have a solution for that, except - add it!