What is a good JavaScript library or jQuery plugin for touch gestures?

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agente_secreto picture agente_secreto · Jan 10, 2012 · Viewed 27k times · Source

I don´t need a full fledged framework like Sencha or jQuery mobile, just the ability to detect gestures such as swype or pinch to optimize some parts of my site for touch devices.

I have never worked with touch events so I dont really know where to start. Is there a light framework or jQuery plugin for this?

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user980085 picture user980085 · Aug 26, 2012

You can check those out: Hammer.js, which you can run standalone or as a jQuery plugin, QuoJS, which is a microlibrary it should work fine alongside jQuery. If you are planning to use jQuery UI then touchpunch should do the job!

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