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I like reading faqs from GameFaqs.com and I'd like to read them on my iPhone. The problem is most game faqs are really, really long, which makes scrolling through them a big pain. Flicking through screen after screen of text takes a very long time.

I am not a web developer, but would there be a way to somehow create an overlay through which we can access a faq and that will give us commands like "search", "go to page", "next page" and "prev page"?

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There has actually already been something made that fixes this problem. It's called QuickScroll, and it's for jailbroken iPhones. Link here: http://moreinfo.thebigboss.org/moreinfo/quickscroll.php

Just search for "quickscroll" in Cydia. It's free, so go check it out!

Charybdis
Is there a solution available that doesn't require jailbreaking?
Steve the Plant
No. In order to modify Safari in a way such as this, it is necessary to have full access to the phone.
Charybdis
It wouldn't be difficult (just time consuming) to write an app-store compatible browser that has "jump to page" or some other type of scrolling functionality
rpetrich
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I'm unclear on what kind of solution you're looking for. Presumably programming of some sort, since this is Stack Overflow. :-)

You could certainly write a native iPhone app that does this. You could also write a proxy-type web service that does it. Presumably those are obvious enough that they are not what you want.

You could do this with bookmarklets. These examples include searching in the page already.

Ken
I was thinking it could be webpage that takes a URL and then reformats the URL's content in such a way you can skip to certain pages. The question is really vague, I know.
Steve the Plant