Gallery: swipe on touch devices

We've looked at the libraries used to do this (e.g. here).

The gallery supports swipe out of the box if any of the following libraries is loaded

Supported:

Any jQuery swipe library with 'swipeleft' and 'swiperight' events, including:

• jQuery Mobile
• jQuery detectSwipe
• jQuery Mobile events

Other (non-jQuery) libraries supported:

• hammer

If any of these library is present, the navigation buttons are hidden and the swipeleft and swiperight events are used instead.

If you don't currently use any "touch" library, we recommend hammer if you need complex gestures, or else detectSwipe is the shortest and simplest of the bunch.

Not supported:

• jGestures: should work in theory, but use with caution as events used don't work well apparently
• TouchWipe: Good simple library, but doesn't use events. Use this jQuery port instead.