NOno-twist·Aug 21, 2015Submission
1 points · Open discussionhammerjs
hammer.js
JavaScript2012–2015
hammerjs / hammer.js
hammer.js
A javascript library for multi-touch gestures :// You can touch this
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A javascript library for multi-touch gestures :// You can touch this
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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6 sourcesYou should now that this project is abandoned and is looking for a new maintainer since January 2015: https://github.com/hammerjs/hammer.js/issues/749 (also issues on GitHub have been piling up for quite a long time).
In Hammer.js: Add touch gestures to your pageHammer.js: Completely Rewritten for 2.0
3 points · Open discussionHammer.js rewrite makes supporting touch devices easier
5 points · Open discussionI'm very excited about fixing wikis, and I'm really impressed to see that OP has some very similar ideas about it.
Because of this, I found it worthwhile to burn 1-2 hours to de-minify his Javascript, which mostly required figuring out what all his inlined JS libs are.
https://gist.github.com/4321959
To save you a click, here are the JS files he uses:
https://github.com/EightMedia/hammer.js/blob/master/jquery.h...
http://code.google.com/p/rangyinputs/source/browse/trunk/jqu...
https://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys/blob/master/jquery...
https://github.com/EightMedia/hammer.js/blob/master/hammer.j...
Modified version of http://code.google.com/p/jquery-elastic/source/browse/trunk/...
http://code.google.com/p/webapptools/source/browse/trunk/wat...
https://github.com/coreyti/showdown/blob/master/src/showdown...
https://github.com/coreyti/s
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Hammer.js: a javascript library for multi-touch gestures
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