Starting in September 2012, Microsoft proposed a specification for unifying touch, pen and mouse events called pointer events.
Modern browsers are not yet all supporting it right. Only Internet Explorer 10+ and Microsoft Edge support it.
Hand.js is a polyfill that will allow you to write your code about touch only once even if the browser does not support pointer events.
Write once, use it everywhere! Don't bother with mouse and touch events. Pointer events are here for you.
You can find a test page right here: http://www.catuhe.com/msdn/handjs/index.html
Hand.js supports the following;
You can also find a complete blog about hand.js: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2013/01/16/hand-js-a-polyfill-for-supporting-pointer-events-on-every-browser.aspx
Another article about pointer events and hand.js: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davrous/archive/2013/02/20/handling-touch-in-your-html5-apps-thanks-to-the-pointer-events-of-ie10-and-windows-8.aspx
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Hand.js is a polyfill for pointer events.
The npm package handjs receives a total of 167 weekly downloads. As such, handjs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that handjs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago.Ā It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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