Touchy.js - light-weight touch event library

[rodion_89]

https://github.com/jairajs89/Touchy.js

[dmethvin]

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?

[rodion_89]

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.

[54mf]

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.

[firefoxman1]

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

[pedalpete]

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_89 → pedalpete]

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

[pedalpete → rodion_89]

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

[tylerlh]

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

[MrPlow]

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

[rodion_89 → MrPlow]

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