DoubleTap for jQuery

"One bullet more in the head will go a long way to ensuring your survival" - Zombieland

DEMO: http://technoweenie.github.com/jquery.doubletap/

This plugin adds custom touch-screen events to the given HTML elements. This should only work on iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches. Anything else is bonus.

The simplest way to use this is to pass in a single callback.

$('.swipe').addSwipeEvents(function(evt, touch) {
  // this is triggered for any of the custom touch events
});

Or, you can bind to each custom event explicitly.

$('.swipe').addSwipeEvents().
  bind('swipe', function(evt, touch) {
    // triggered for swipe events
  })

The events that are triggered are:

touch (triggered for all events)
swipe (triggered for all swipe events)
tap (no horizontal or vertical movement)
doubletap
swipeleft
swiperight
swipeup
swipedown

Each event passes an extra touchStatus object with these properties:

target (the HTML element triggering the event)
touch (a reference to the browser's TouchStatus object)
eventType (the name of the triggered event)
startX (the starting screenX value)
startY (the starting screenY value)
currentX (the latest screenX value)
currentY (the latest screenY value)

TODO

Android support would rock :)
Gestures
Multi-finger swipes

Acknowledgements

Ryan Scherf, author of the swipe plugin
nroberts, author of the Touching and Gesturing on the iPhone blog post.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Commit, do not mess with version or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.