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Draggable and mobile touch events

in Using jQuery UI • 11 years ago

Hello,

What is current correct way to enable touch events for draggable() elements? There are a few plugins like:
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui-for-ipad-and-iphone/
https://github.com/furf/jquery-ui-touch-punch

But both seem to have bugs and neither is actively developed. This post raises the same question and has not be answered by a member of the jquery ui team. http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-ui-and-touch-devices

Is this in the works for jquery ui? is there a status? I just want my draggable() objects to also be affected by touch events, not just mouse.

How does jquery mobile play into this?

Thank you!

James

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rdworth

Re: Draggable and mobile touch events

11 years ago

The mouse plugin and all the interactions that build on it are scheduled for heavy rewrites for the 2.0 release. This work has started now with http://wiki.jqueryui.com/w/page/40076663/Grid-Selecting and will continue. The existing versions of all these plugins are currently not getting any but the most critical updates. The next version of what is now the mouse plugin will have mouse and touch support (so it will need a more suitable name). jQuery mobile plays into this in that it has solved a lot of the issues with touch, so we'll incorporate their solutions into ours, when we get to that point.