A gentle way to hook up to the jQuery scroll event while maintaining a reasonable frame-per-second scroll rate.

gentle-jquery-scroll-event.js

var scrolled = false;

$(window).scroll(scrollEvents);

function scrollEvents() {
  scrolled = true;
}

setInterval(function() {
  if(didScroll) {
    // Execute scroll events, animations, etc. here
    didScroll = false;
  }
}, 200);