Great news, I look forward to testing this and thanks for making jQuery UI better and better!
Nick On Feb 17, 8:59 am, Paul Bakaus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
