On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:39 AM, NickUK <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> This is very interesting!
> Would this make it into jQuery UI 1.8? I and a few others have touch
> enabled phones (iPhone, HTC Touch) at work and it would be really
> handy to use this functionality as our CMS extensively uses jQuery UI.
>
> I'm assuming this is purely iPhone only ATM but do you see support for
> other touch phones in future?


Definitely. I just need to get some test devices (I currently only have an
iPhone,
and Opera on the Wii).

It's definitely planned for 1.8, since the patch is pretty simple.


>
>
> Nick
>
> On Feb 15, 12:20 pm, Paul Bakaus <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:17 PM, jason kuhn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > > I've came up with a solution to allow most of the UI widgets that
> > > depend on mouse events to work on the iPhone. It's a variation of a
> > > script that Ross Boucher (http://rossboucher.com/2008/08/19/iphone-
> > > touch-events-in-javascript/<
> http://rossboucher.com/2008/08/19/iphone-%0Atouch-events-in-javascript/>)
> > > started, but meant for use with jQuery.
> >
> > > I have set up a demo of what works and doesn't work (yet). I figured
> > > you guys might like to check it out!
> >
> > > It's a little temperamental, but it's a start. I've noticed that on an
> > > actual iPhone/Touch it's slow with animating and dragging, but on the
> > > Simulator, it works great.
> >
> > > demo:http://jasonkuhn.net/mobile/jqui/
> > > plugin:http://jasonkuhn.net/mobile/jqui/js/jquery.iphoneui.js
> >
> > > all you need to do is call .addTouch() on whatever element you want to
> > > use touch events to simulate the mouse events.
> >
> > > ex: $('.drag').draggable({helper: 'clone'}).addTouch();
> >
> > > Maybe this will be helpful for some iPhone specific UIs...
> >
> > > Any input or feedback or improvements would be great!
> >
> > > Enjoy!
> > > Jason
> >
> > Hey Jason,
> >
> > great work! Very cool timing, in fact, by pure coincidence I developed
> > a patch for the next version of jQuery UI (after 1.7) that works
> > almost the same.
> >
> > You'll find it here:http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/4143
> >
> > There's one small but important difference: Instead of delegating or
> > forwarding the events, it simply binds the touch* events instead
> > as replacement. Only the droppable plugin needed a small fix, because
> > it was checking for event.type == 'mousedown'.
> >
> > I've noticed the same issues you had - resizable doesn't work since
> > it uses mouseover events for handle detection. That needs to be
> refactored
> > anyway for the next version. Selectable clicks don't work, as you also
> > noticed, but I didn't investigate the cause yet.
> >
> > There are some performance issues on the actual device though
> > right now. They're mainly related to the offset function (iPhone doesn't
> > support getBoundingClientRect), and more importantly, the triggering
> > of custom events. I'll work on both.
> >
> > Jason, feel free to try out the patch, and provide any solutions you
> > find. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paul Bakaus
> > UI Architect
> > --http://paulbakaus.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus
> >
>


-- 
Paul Bakaus
UI Architect
--
http://paulbakaus.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus

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