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Skinkers release TouchSwipe jQuery plugin for iPad, iPhone and Android.

February 11th, 2011 | Android, Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, JavaScript, jQuery | Matt Bryson

Skinkers’ TouchSwipe jQuery plugin enables the detection of swipe gestures on touch based devices.

Features

  • Detects swipes in 4 directions, “up”, “down”, “left” and “right”
  • Supports single finger or double finger touch events
  • Supports click as well as swipe
  • Definable threshold to determin when a gesture is actually a swipe
  • Events triggered for swipe “start”,”move”,”end” and “cancel”
  • End event can be triggered either on touch release, or as soon as threshold is met
  • Allows swiping and page scrolling

Download the plugin at :
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/touchSwipe

Demos and docs at:
http://labs.skinkers.com/touchSwipe/

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Images disappearing on iPad/Mobile Safari HTML5 web site?

December 21st, 2010 | Apple, HTML5, iOS, iPad | Matt Bryson

We have just finished an app for the iPad that was actually an HTML5 web application, launched from an native iOS application.

All was fine, until we dropped the assets in, and suddenly halfway through using the app the images stopped loading. No errors, no warnings, and it worked perfectly on the desktop.

As it turns out, iOS has a size limit when loading images – but there is a workaround…

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