a better (performance) event listener

addEventListener_passive.js

/* Feature detection */
var passiveIfSupported = false;

try {
  window.addEventListener("test", null, Object.defineProperty({}, "passive", { get: function() { passiveIfSupported = { passive: true }; } }));
} catch(err) {}

window.addEventListener('scroll', function(event) {
  /* do something */
  // can't use event.preventDefault();
  console.count('scroll');
}, passiveIfSupported );