I just realized that I likely had the whole navigation area disabled when I wrote the post here.

If you didn't see a metallic grill at the top with product icons, then you missed the nav. That's where most of the Mobile Safari bad-stuff happens.

On a completely non-rendering note, I'm noticing Safari just quits out at random times. I'll be reading a page, scrolling it up and down and the poof, back to the home screen. Come back to Safari and the page reloads and the back browser history has been wiped.

Other than these random quits (or crashes) I also notice that when you switch between "tabs" that the page you select needs to reload. Arrrgh. Same when you go back and forward pages. This browser seems to implement no caching. Great design decision for a mobile device.