Question

I’m looking for a super simple jQuery extension. Basically I need to use some events that jQuery does not explicitly support. These events are the iPhone touch events like ontouchstart, ontouchend, and ontouchmove.

I have it working via this:

// Sucks
$('.clickable').each(function() {
  this.ontouchstart = function(event) {
    //do stuff...
  };
}

Which kind of sucks and is unjqueryish. Here is what I would like:

// Better
$('.clickable').touchstart(function() {
  //do stuff...
}

Or even better with 1.4

// Awesome
$('.clickable').live('touchstart', function() {
  //.. do stuff
}

These events need no special handling and should work just like any other events, but I can’t seem to figure out how to extend jquery to make them work just like all the other events do.

Answer 1

This now works, just like it’s stubbed out above, on the latest jQuery release. Go jQuery!