Question

I use the swiperight and swipeleft events from jQuery Mobile. They work pretty fine on my desktop pc and on an iphone while developing but when I test it on my windows phone both events just don’t fire.

As simple as it seems to be:

<div class="swiper">Content</div>

and the Script

$(".swiper").swiperight(function(event){
    alert('swiperight');
});
$(".swiper").swipeleft(function(event){
    alert('swipeleft');
});

Same problem with $(“.swiper”).live(‘swipeleft swiperight’)

Does anyone have a solution for this? According to http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2012/08/01/announcing-jquery-mobile-1-2-0-alpha/ they have A-grade support for Windows Phone.

Answer 1

Unfortunately the Internet Explorer browser on Windows Phone doesn’t support touch events. This means that jQuery Mobile events for swipe do not work on Windows Phone. As far as I know, there is no solution or workaround, because the browser doesn’t fire the necessary events for detecting swiping motions.