My proof of concept http://www.overset.com/2008/08/30/animated-sortable-datagrid-jquery-plugin-jtps/
I haven't yet seen html scrolling animation like this non-flash or flex. This is essentially an unreleased jquery plugin that you can attach to an already created table that will allow for sorting and pagination. The animation is sensitive to the page delta, i.e. it will scroll faster if you go from page 1 to 5 than from page 1 to 2. The core of the animation is really a queued style.display: ( 'none' || '' ) and given the delay by hijacking the .animate() functionality as many have used in the past. It feels somewhat dirty but is easier than programming another whole setTimeout management layer for this. I put a bit of work on coding an intelligent sort that is similar to php's old natural sort (STRING_SORT) and is faster (as of some initial testing) than other implementations I've seen. I'm going to re-vamp the re-drawing of the table rows to make this faster considering how slow it currently is.. but the animation of the pagination is something I wanted to throw out there for some feedback. It's currently floating around 10KB un-minified and well commented Cheers