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Re: Differentiate between touch start and click

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Differentiate between touch start and click
Date 2016-09-17 00:06 +0200
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> I have a touchstart event and a click event both triggering this function

You should not.  AISB, “touchstart” is equivalent to “mousedown” and 
“pointerdown”; ”click” is equivalent to “touchstart” followed by
“touchend”, or “pointerdown” followed by “pointerup”, instead.

> To tell whether it was a touchstart or a click I'm using
>    (e.type != "click")
> is that the right way to differentiate between the two or should I have
> two smaller functions (one for each event) which then pass on the
> relevant values to checkTrigger?

No.

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Differentiate between touch start and click Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-16 18:26 +1000
  Re: Differentiate between touch start and click Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-16 11:25 +0100
  Re: Differentiate between touch start and click Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-09-17 00:06 +0200
    Re: Differentiate between touch start and click Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-18 19:25 +1000

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