thumbs.js

Add touch support to your browser.

About

Small, transparent, and syntax-less library that adds touch support to your browser.

• Handy for desktop debugging
• Add touch to touch-less devices
• Does nothing on touch-enabled devices
• PhoneGap and mobile web friendly

More detail and a demo are on the thumbs.js homepage.

Browser Support

• FireFox Desktop
• Opera Desktop
• Webkit Desktop
• Webkit Mobile

Usage

<!-- include before all javascript -->
<!-- can also be dynamically loaded -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://github.com/mwbrooks/thumbs.js/raw/master/thumbs.js"></script>

// later on...

element.addEventListener('touchstart', callback, false);
element.addEventListener('touchend',   callback, false);
element.addEventListener('touchmove',  callback, false);

// jQuery or zepto.js
$(element).bind('touchstart', callback);

// xui
$(element).on('touchstart', callback);

Building from source

Run:

make

Generates:

build/thumbs.x.x.js
build/thumbs.x.x.min.js

Running the tests

Open in a browser:

test/index.html

Running a simple example

Open in a browser:

example/index.html

Want to contribute?

Report or fix an issue

We use GitHub Issues

By the way, you rock! Thanks for helping us improve thumbs.js.

Pull Requests

Pull requests are welcome!

We appreciate the use of topic branches.

git checkout -b issue_23

# code

git commit -m "Issue 23: Fix a bad bug."

git push origin issue_23

# send pull request from branch issue_23 to mwbrooks:master