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The most popular jQuery plugin which creates the animation of swiping?

in Using jQuery Plugins • 7 years ago

Recently I'm about to create a mobile website, in which swiping left and right allows users to navigate between pages (just different <div data-role="page">s, not actually independent html pages).

Although jQuery Mobile and its Pagecontainer widget can achieve the change of pages, it doesn't seem to also create the drag-like animation of swiping.

I did some search on Google and found a few plugins which create the animation. But I'm new to mobile website development and know nothing about the popularity of those plugins. So I'm here to ask which plugin is the most popular and the most reliable one to use.

Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.

Replies(7)

jakecigar

Re: The most popular jQuery plugin which creates the animation of swiping?

7 years ago

It makes a big difference if you want a plugin for JQM or plain JQ.

If you share the links you found, we can tell you what we think of them.

In the rare occasions that I need something like this, I usually write it myself.

JΛ̊KE

watusiware

Re: The most popular jQuery plugin which creates the animation of swiping?

7 years ago

What did you find?

Don't assume that the notion of dragging the page along with your finger is a wildly popular gotta-have feature that we are all clamoring for.

If you show us what you found, we can say what we like or don't like about it.

If this is for jQuery Mobile, you probably will not find anything. Dunno if you are the same poster, but this was recently discussed on the jQuery Mobile forum. It would be a difficult thing for a plugin to do, and would probably require some changes to jQuery Mobile itself. If even possible, any plugin would have to be specific to jQuery Mobile and would have to replace the transition handler.

You could make a request for the next version:

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#feature-requests

Ian Y