Question

The FastClick library enhanced the responsiveness on JavaScript’s onClick event when used under Webkit, but will it improve the responsiveness of a normal hyperlink? (e.g. <a href=''...) ?

Answer 1

A normal anchor element will navigate the browser when the click event is fired. On mobile that click registers 300ms after the touchstart. Using FastClick and a custom window.location change, will indeed speed things up.

PS: I figured you are asking if default links, without custom JS handlers attached, will be faster with FastClick; they won’t, you will have to add your own custom handler. You could easily do this by delegating from a HTML element high up, say body. You could use jQuery with the excellent: .on( events \[, selector\] \[, data\], handler(eventObject) )