How To Listen To Swipe Event

[lifeelement]

We are wiring this up with crossroads.js so that it scrolls by url change. We are still struggling to handle the legendary back button issue.

Any idea how to make it animate to the previous page when pressing the back button?

Regardless, how would you listen for the swipe event? We have other element indicators that need to change that work great when clicking buttons, but not on swipe.

Thanks

[trgraglia]

@lifeelement
A few differnent issues here:
Back button: Try the history api in the browser. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API
Animate on back: I need to research a bit but i think it should work with the history api.
Swipe: Swipe should work if you have touchswipe. Which browser is it not working in?

For the history api on older browsers, you can use modernizer.

[lifeelement]

This is pertain to mobile app concerns where the files are stored locally versus accessed online. With the History API, we didn't get much luck with it. Perhaps it needs new eyes on it, but it wasn't really working for us.

As for swiping, it does work and we're using IE 10, Edge, and Chrome 48. But we need to know how to listen to swipe events because we have an element/component that changes based on which screen/page is showing; you know the usual dots, circles, or squares that indicate what page you're on.