Super Gestures jQuery Plugin

Posed under jQuery on June 8, 2009.

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Jireck

Jun 09 2009

hox-to color the gesture ?

like http://friggeri.net/blog/2008/12/21/jquery-gestures

Thanks and great plugin

LingLing

Jun 09 2009

mh, it doesn't really work in safari 3...

Evan Byrne

Jun 09 2009

@Jireck the added color line I think ruined that plugin, not to mention that it used canvas so it didn't work in IE. If the interface is intuitive and the user knows he/she has to make "gestures" to do things then the visual feedback is really quite pointless.

@LingLing that's odd, anyone else having this problem with Safari 3? I only have Safari 4 installed at the moment. Seems that if it works in all the other browsers it ought to work in Safari 3 too.

Sean O

Jun 10 2009

Evan, nice idea. I tried the Simple Gestures demo on my iPhone, and could get nothing to register. It seems as if Safari Mobile's native tendency to scroll the page with the slight vertical movement overrides your plugin. Perhaps a sensitivity adjustment would help?

-- SEAN O

Evan Byrne

Jun 10 2009

Sean, thanks for testing that for me! Perhaps it would work in a Titanium app where it isn't actually running in Safari Mobile.

Korbsan

Jun 11 2009

awesome job, Evan. Thanks for sharing

Rob

Jun 16 2009

Great plugin, this can be used as an alternative captcha method (follow the path or something like that).

Great job!

Ivan Hennig

Jul 02 2009

Great job!

Can you improve your plugin with velocity of movement?

Evan Byrne

Jul 02 2009

Ivan, if I understand you correctly that's what magnitude is used for.

John

Sep 02 2009

I couldn't get it to work on the iphone.

It tries to scroll the page instead.

Evan Byrne

Sep 03 2009

Unfortunately, it does not work in the iPhone safari browser because the scrolling functionality overrides the gestures script.

I'm not sure but it may work in a development environment like titanium.

SMiGL

Jan 05 2010

All demo of blank pages, and nothing happens. Maybe I did not understand what they need?

Evan Byrne

Jan 05 2010

You click, drag, and then release your mouse on the demo pages to perform gestures, which cause certain events.

Nick

Feb 03 2010

Evan I am wanting to use Super Gestures for a website I am working on. I have posted a question on stack overflow on how to utilise your plugin. I wonder if you can help me, rather than clog up your blog the question is here, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2190582/jquery-mouse-gestures-btn-queuing, Many thanks!

rost

Feb 22 2010

doesnt work in the android browser. would be awesome of that could work. guess the browser doesnt trigger mouseMove events?

but great plugin none the less!

Anders

May 19 2010

I wonder why you have to click once anywhere within the website, before any events are registered? this also happens in the demos.

Evan Byrne

May 19 2010

@Anders, I think it has something to do with the frame not being focused on page load.

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