Inertial Scroll

Sometimes the best way to learn a language is to try to fake physics in it.

The Idea

A personal side experiment aimed at recreating the fluid, momentum-driven feel of touchscreen swiping inside a standard web browser — no scrolling library, just hand-rolled physics from first principles.

The Build

Simple exposed variables let a developer dial in how much friction and glide the scroll should carry, tackled during the first year of university as an early exercise in JavaScript fundamentals.

The Outcome

A lightweight, tunable scrolling behavior that can be dropped into a page and adjusted without touching the underlying logic — a small proof of concept for native-feeling gestures on horizontal web layouts.