JQuery - Can I query the MacBook Pro Trackpad?

Tomkay picture Tomkay · Jan 13, 2011 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

Can I use JQuery to query the Trackpad? So I can do something like this:

Pseudo Javascript (JQuery)

$(document).keyInput().trackpadTwoFingersLeft(function() {
  $('#div ul').animate({left: "=+1"},1);
});

Is there a plugIn or another framework where I can do this?
Thank you for every response and idea. :)

Answer

Gideon picture Gideon · Jan 13, 2011

I've looked around a bit on the web, and so far see that both Chrome and Safari do not expose these events in the browser.

https://superuser.com/questions/27627/three-finger-page-up-page-down-in-safari-chrome

Touch events available in Safari?

Firefox does support something:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Mouse_gesture_events

But I don't see a lot of references to this.

I guess when only one browser supports it, it is a bit useless to use these kind of events.