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bdevelop
bdevelop

Reputation: 53

html5 swipe events

I am pretty new to HTML5. Coming from Flash background, I can call the swipe events easily from Actionscript API. But for HTML5, I believe I have to code this myself by listening to touchstart, touchmove, and touchend. Is there a simpler way to do this? And also I am looking for a website that contains complete HTML5 references

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9149

Answers (1)

nafisto
nafisto

Reputation: 449

Your best bet for handling touch events is to look at some JavaScript libraries that can handle them: JQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch and jQT (formerly jQTouch) are the big ones.

If you're not already using JQuery, I would highly recommend it.

As far as HTML references, the (highly verbose and technical) specification document might be too much, so I would suggest starting with w3schools. (A tip: Keep in mind that HTML5 is still a work in progress and browser/client support varies.)

If you need help figuring out how to manipulate the DOM (i.e. how to use JavaScript to make things happen), the JQuery documentation is also be a good reference point.

Upvotes: 5

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