The plugin uses $.support.touch to know whether it should bind to touch events or not. Unfortunately, $support.touch was removed from jQuery 1.7.2.

I realize that the documentation for $.support says not to rely on $support options sticking around in future versions - that it's really for internal use only, and when a feature detection is no longer needed, it is quickly removed.

The suggestion in the docs is to use some external library, such as Modernizr. But this seems a heavy-handed requirement for a plugin. I can't really ask users to also use Modernizr. What if they prefer another feature detection solution?

What are others using with 1.7.2 to detect if a browser supports touch events?

I disagree strongly with the decision to treat $.support as such a transient feature. Especially for something so fundamental as touch support. But in the mean time, what is a good workaround, other than dropping-back to 1.7.1?