olton2/jquery-pointerevents

Basic polyfill for Pointer Events W3C Specification

jQuery PointerEvents v0.5.2

Basic polyfill for Pointer Events W3C Specitication using jQuery special events API.

what?

Polyfill is trying to dynamically wrap all the possible mouse*, touch* and MSPointer* events to provide a single PointerEvent Interface. Read more.

why?

Because there are too many different events types on different platforms with different input mechanisms. Read more.

how?

$ bower install --save jquery-pointerevents

<!-- load jQuery and plugin as browser globals or with RequireJS/AMD -->

<script>
    $('body').on({
        pointerdown: function(e) { console.log(e); },
        pointerup: function(e) { console.log(e); },
        // …
    });
</script>

implemented

• pointerenter
• pointerover
• pointerdown
• pointermove
• pointerup
• pointerout
• pointerleave
• pointercancel

not implemented

• gotpointercapture
• lostpointercapture
• element.setPointerCapture()
• element.releasePointerCapture()
• onpointer* HTML attributes
• touch-action CSS property
• window.navigator.pointerEnabled
• window.maxTouchPoints

cross-browser compatibility

Depends on your jQuery version – jquery.com/browser-support.

Also, caniuse.com/#feat=pointer:

// nothing to do in IE11 for today
if(win.navigator.pointerEnabled) {
    return;
}

test

• open test/index.html in your browser(s), do something and look at console output
• npm test

alternatives

• Polymer / PointerEvents
• HandJS

license

MIT