jTap

jTap - additional event for jQuery processing touching to screen on touch devices.

Those who are faced with adaptation of web-based applications for mobile devices knows that the event "click" is triggered with a delay of 300ms, observe which not very pleasant. In addition, click on non-delegated place of document will not work. To solve these problems and was designed by jQuery Tap Event.

Usage

Include the plugin file on the page:

<script src="jquery.tap.js"></script>

and then, after initialization, can set handler as follows:

$('selector').tap(handler);
$('selector').on('tap', handler);

Note: if using "tap" method, you can check the existence of him:

$.isFunction($.fn.tap);

and even protect themselves in so doing:

var clickEvent = $.isFunction($.fn.tap) ? 'tap' : 'click';

$('selector')[clickEvent](handler);

But, of course, better to just use delegation event by means of jQuery method .on('tap', handler)

Note: A noteworthy feature of plugin is a versatility. No matter where you are using the "tap" event : on a device with a touch screen or on a desktop computer - the handler will be executed disparately.

Changelog

Version 0.2.9, June 2, 2014:

• fixed an issue #2: undelegate event works incorrect.

Version 0.2.8, May 27, 2014:

• was removed the checking of "ontouchstart" in document, because newest versions of browsers contains this property in document for any format of the computer;
• the library was oriented for jQuery 1.6 or higher.

Version 0.2.7, March 17, 2014:

• added support of jQuery >= 1.4.x

Version 0.2.6, March 14, 2014:

• made the code refactoring;
• updated the license and demonstration.

Version 0.2.5, November 17, 2013:

• fixed an issue #1: method preventdefault doesn't worked, because the tap event constructed by mousedown/mouseup or touchstart/touchend events and they can not to be prevented.

Version 0.2.4, August 22, 2013:

• first public version.

Thank you

• Vasily Asakasinsky (asakasinsky), for the bug report #1 - November 17, 2013.
• egorogl, for the bug report #2 - May 29, 2014.

Licence

jTap is licensed under the MIT license.

Links

• Demonstration: http://firstvector.org/jTap
• Plugin page: http://plugins.jquery.com/jTap/
• Presentational publication (ru): http://habrahabr.ru/post/191078/