oribella-framework

oribella-framework

Have you felt frustrated over DOM events? Have you realised after getting some interaction working in Chrome that it doesn't work on IE on a hybrid device? Do you want to focus on features and be sure it works on all your supported browsers and devices?

Well, this is the core library of Oribella cross browser, cross device, cross input gesture framework.

Oribella has a set of normalised gestures Tap, Doubletap, Longtap, Swipe, LongtapSwipe, Pinch and Rotate.

Just because the gesture is named Tap it doesn't mean that it only works on touch. They are normalised and works cross input meaning it could be for example mouse, touch, pen.

It's soul purpose is to normalize the event hell into an easy to understand flow. It currently understands mouse, touch, MSPointer and pointer event flows. However this is pluggable so if there comes another one it should "just" be able to plug it in. As long as it follows the following conventions.

1. Start event
2. Update event
3. End event
4. Cancel event

This ensures a solid flow where you always make sure to be in a good state. So for the current supported flows it could be translated into this:

Mouse

start - mousedown

update - mousemove

end - mouseup

cancel - dragstart

What? Why dragstart? Since the browser stops sending mouse events as soon as it becomes a drag we can't ensure a consistent flow hence we cancel the mouse flow.

Touch

start - touchstart

update - touchmove

end - touchend, mouseup

cancel - touchcancel, dragstart

What? Why mouseup? Since there are browser quirks there are some use cases where you don't get a touchend but instead a mouseup.

MSPointer

start - MSPointerDown

update - MSPointerMove

end - MSPointerUp

cancel - MSPointerCancel, dragstart

pointer

start - pointerdown

update - pointermove

end - pointerup

cancel - pointercancel, dragstart

So now we have covered the event flow which is the foundation for understanding how to build gestures.

To use the Oribella framework you need to instantiate the Oribella class and configure it. For convenience this is done for you by Default gestures repository.