Dustan Kasten is a developer advocate at Skookum Digital Works. He spends his time exploring ideas behind browser-based UI application development. He still believes the web has the potential to build compelling interfaces that can compete with native platforms.
You have likely experienced the 300-millisecond delay in mobile browsers or wrestled with touchmove versus scrolling. Certain events that used to be very clear are now filled with ambiguity. The click event used to mean one thing and one thing only, but touchscreens have complicated it by needing to discern whether the action is a double-click, scroll, event or some other OS-level gesture. In this article Dustan Kasten will introduce the event cascade and use this knowledge to implement a demo of a tap event that supports the many input methods while not breaking in proxy browsers such as Opera Mini.
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