Using Privoxy, I successfully changed the User Agent on my N800 browser to be exactly same as the iPhone browser but the problem still existed on both CNN and WSJ websites.

This makes me believe that iPhone scrolling treats finger scroll as a different form of input than onMouseClick or onMouseDown.

But on N800/N810, there probably is no distinction between scroll touch vs click touch due to the lack of multi touch.

I know that N800 can read fat-finger touch because it displays big menus on fat finger touch so maybe this can be added to the browser as a form of scroll input and not be treated as onMouseClick or onMouseDown.