тестил в хроме:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onmousewheel = function(e)
{
var delta = e.deltaY || e.detail || e.wheelDelta;
console.log(delta);
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
//return false;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width: 100px; height: 1000px;">
</div>
</body>
</html>