Scroll event firing too many times. I only want it to fire a maximum of, say, once per second

Question

I have a page with \"infinite scroll\". It calculates the difference between the end of the page and the current page and loads more content if this difference is small enou

Answer 1

Check out the Underscore.js library's "throttle" method.

http://underscorejs.org/#throttle

The example it gives is exactly what you're asking about - limiting how often you have to handle scroll events.