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If you can link me to some examples of this I'll be happy to add them.

(edit) I have a comment around the fact user defined reader macros are not supported in Clojure (save for a hack). Is this not the case anymore?

Let see how we could improve this. Browser Extension/Plugin with a site whitelist. When you browse to the site and there is significant content below the fold you get a tiny popup informing you that scrolling will start in X seconds unless you hit cancel (or perhaps just move the mouse).

All you would have to do is browse to the site (I imagine, ReadItLater, Readability etc. to be typical sites people would use this extension with).

Just a though.

OK there are 2 values you can adjust - the interval (how many ms before it attempts to scroll again) and the increment (how many px's it will jump). You can adjust to your taste if you prefer something else.

I was worried about scrolling on different browsers looking a bit rough - it's something i'll need to tackle soon.

Very basic evening project I threw together. Currently not supported in many mobile browsers but desktop ones appear to work as expected (no promises).

Came into existence because I feed my son at around 3AM and scrolling all the time is a bit of a pain. So I just set this up and let it scroll for me.

Written in Play 2 (Scala) but it's mostly static HTML and JavaScript so thats largely irrelevant.