For one of our client, Adya[1], our team at Alaris Prime[2] implemented the very same idea for the web. It is a file manager that displays a huge list of folders/files from multiple clouds (file storage) providers. We needed a fast-loading, smooth UX and way to do it was to move things around as little as possible - only the visible viewport of the user's browser.

We should be writing a case study on it but never got around to doing it.

1. https://www.adya.io

2. https://alarisprime.com