I think your problem is actually css. Make your page longer that client area height. add more images to $container
Point is, botom edge of your $container need to pass bottom of window so scroll event fires so infinite scroll can react on this event and calculate weather or not edge is reached
BTW, in same cases, for instance, when I shrink my window, the example you set is working.
=== UPDATE ===
I found some time to play with infinitescroll and here is final working script, just set pathParse method in your script
$(function () {
var $container = $('#itemContainer');
$container.imagesLoaded(function () {
$container.masonry({
itemSelector:'.item'
});
});
$container.infinitescroll({
navSelector:'.navigation', // selector for the paged navigation
nextSelector:'.navigation #next', // selector for the NEXT link (to page 2)
itemSelector:'.item', // selector for all items you'll retrieve
bufferPx:40,
debug:true,
columnWidth:function (containerWidth) {
return containerWidth / 5;
},
loading:{
finishedMsg:'No more pages to load.',
img:'http://i.imgur.com/6RMhx.gif'
},
pathParse: function(path,page){
return $(this.nextSelector).attr("href");
}
},
// trigger Masonry as a callback
function (newElements) {
// hide new items while they are loading
var $newElems = $(newElements).css({ opacity:0 });
// ensure that images load before adding to masonry layout
$newElems.imagesLoaded(function () {
// show elems now they're ready
$newElems.animate({ opacity:1 });
$container.masonry('appended', $newElems, true);
});
//console.log("test (never fired :( )");
}
);
});
Now, since your next link will not update by it self (http://reddit.ymindustries.com/?after=t3_yh4av), you need to change the callback to pull out last element from ajax response and change next link... could be something like this
function (newElements) {
// hide new items while they are loading
var $newElems = $(newElements).css({ opacity:0 });
// ensure that images load before adding to masonry layout
// ======> if query parameter after=... is caring filename then do this
var lastImageUrl= $newElements[$newElements.length-1].attr("src");
var lastFileName= lastImageUrl.substring(lastImageUrl.lastIndexOf("/") +1, lastImageUrl.lastIndexOf("."));
$("#next").attr("href", "http://reddit.ymindustries.com/?after="+lastFileName);
$newElems.imagesLoaded(function () {
// show elems now they're ready
$newElems.animate({ opacity:1 });
$container.masonry('appended', $newElems, true);
});
//console.log("test (never fired :( )");
}