jQuery mobile- For every live tap event should there be an equivalent click event?

Question

I have replaced the jQuery live click events to jQuery mobile tap events to increase responsiveness.

I have a feeling this was a bad idea for compatibility reasons.

Is it necessary to have both events, and is there any way to write them both for the same function?

Such as ('click','tap')

Answer 1

Billy's answer is incredibly complete and actually worked quite well the few times I used it. Additionally however, you may want to look at the vmouse plugin in JQuery Mobile, it is an attempt to abstract mouse events:

 // This plugin is an experiment for abstracting away the touch and mouse
 // events so that developers don't have to worry about which method of input
 // the device their document is loaded on supports.

-- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/blob/master/js/vmouse.js

I've been playing with it on a project I'm working on, it seems pretty responsive these days. To use, something like:

$('selector').bind('vclick', function () { ...

or

$('selector').bind('vmousedown', function () { ...