Sorry, to clarify I want a solution so that we do not have to bake our own - Sencha abstracts it all away and handles everything the same across all devices (so I'm led to believe by the dev that chose and implemented it - I have very little experience with it). By 'native touch events' I mean very much like the link you've provided (which is a very promising resource, so thankyou for that), in that it offers a 'doubletap', 'swipe', and 'pinch' event for instance. (So more precisely _emulating_ native touch events?).
I've found a good list of libraries in my research [1] but I was wondering if anyone had specific experience that could tip the balance in favour of one lib above Sencha (which to my eyes seems bloated and awkwardly constructed).
[1: https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Touch]
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bebraw / jswiki
jswiki
JavaScript wiki. Focuses mainly on JS/HTML5/WebGL related tech.
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Building
Make sure you have ghw installed!
Clone wiki (git clone git@github.com:bebraw/jswiki.wiki.git). This will create "jswiki.wiki" directory here.
Clone gh-pages (git clone git@github.com:bebraw/jswiki.git, cd jswiki, git checkout -b gh-pages origin/gh-pages). After this you should have "jswiki" directory containing gh-pages branch.
Run build.sh. Once that has been done, you should have a fresh build at "jswiki" directory. Commit and push to see it online. You can preview it offline before commit if you want.
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