Detecting iOS lack of scroll event in Modernizr?

Question

The way iOS currently handles the onscroll event is described here. Basically instead of sending multiple onscroll events as the page/element is being scrolled it sends one onscroll event after the page/element has stopped scrolling.

This creates different issues when scripting a dynamic website, and fallbacks are needed to deal with it.

My question is if there is a Modernizr style way of dealing with this "lack of a feature". The other way of dealing with it would be to detect what device is being used, which is not really ideal (future – iOS 7 comes and all of a sudden supports it for all devices and my website still displays fallback).

Answer 1

This is just not detectable at this stage. See: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/Undetectables

whether a scroll wheel event is coming from a continuous device like a trackpad or the Magic Mouse or from a traditional clicking scroll wheel (in webkit).