Loading content as the user scrolls down

Question

I am building a blog type page, and I want to load items into the page as the user scrolls down, much like Google Reader, or Soup.io. How would you go about achieving this effect? I've seen some examples which read the height of the page, and have an onScroll even attached to the window so that as the user scrolls down we can test to see if they've scrolled down far enough to warrant loading more items. Soup.io's implementation seems to remove the old items as you scroll down so that the browser isn't dealing with an ever-increasingly large DOM tree. Which javascript libraries would be best suited to this task?

Answer 1

Thy this jquery example http://webdeveloperplus.com/jquery/create-a-dynamic-scrolling-content-box-using-ajax/

Answer 2

Unspace had an article demonstrating this functionality: Endless Pageless: No More Next Page. Their demonstration page is here.

This particular example uses RoR and Prototype.