Scrolltastic is a jQuery plugin that let’s you add scrolling to an element that wouldn’t be able to otherwise(ie: an element with “overflow: hidden;” set). You can set ‘up’ and ‘down’ anchors that the user can click & hold to scroll the element in the respective direction. This plugin also uses Brandon Aaron’s mousewheel jQuery plugin to bring mouse-wheel support to scrolling.
The scrolling is artificially rendered using nothing but mouse-wheel events and jQuery animation. Smooth and fluid, Scrolltastic creates a scrolling experience that feels strikingly native.
A few weeks after I released the plugin, I had received a pull-request from D1plo1d, who kindly added iOS support to the plugin.
You can also view it in action on Paul D’andrea’s photography blog. This plugin was developed with Paul’s blog in mind. He kindly allowed us to open source the plugin.