Touchy.js - light-weight touch event library

by rodion_89 • 14 years ago

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pedalpete2• 14 years ago

Very cool, but I'd like a simple library which gives the basics of tap, touch and hold, touch and move, or something that easily recreates the general click functions.

rodion_893• 14 years ago

I only started this yesterday, but I do intend to build those kinds of functionalities into this library later.

pedalpete2• 14 years ago

very cool, you're off to a great start.

firefoxman1• 14 years ago

That's fantastic. I love the way you implemented multitouch with an object. Very simple.

dmethvin• 14 years ago

I like some of those abstractions, like the finger vs. hand and one/two/... fingers.

Apple doesn't seem interested in playing ball with the W3C to standardize touch events:

http://www.w3.org/2012/01/touch-pag-charter

Presumably for that reason, the touch model Microsoft has for Windows 8 looks very different than the Webkit model:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh673557%28v=vs.85%2...

So anyone wanting to use touch events cross-platform will need some sort of shim layer for them. Maybe Touchy could help there?

tylerlh• 14 years ago

Nice work on this. I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure. I've got some apps that can use it.

54mf• 14 years ago

Awesome. I've been needing a simple way to distinguish between a tap and a swipe/drag - i.e. activate a thing if the user taps a <div>, but not if they touch a <div> but swipe away - and using the finger.end data should work quite nicely.

rodion_893• 14 years ago

For anyone who cares, I rewrote most of the library an hour ago to eliminate some inconsistencies during multi-touch events. Usage has not changed at all.

MrPlow• 14 years ago

Isn't this just a fork of https://github.com/HotStudio/touchy/blob/master/jquery.touch...?

rodion_893• 14 years ago

Nope. Lighter-weight (1.13kb compressed). No dependencies (ie jQuery). I wrote all the code.

Touchy.js - light-weight touch event library

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