Author: jgonera
Description:
This will make the UI much more responsive.
We could also use the following library instead, but it's additional 8KB minified which seems a lot for such a simple thing:
http://labs.ft.com/articles/ft-fastclick/
https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
mgrover wrote:
Assigned Mingle Ticket https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/mobile/cards/724
How much more responsive would this make the UI? Is there some way for us to get a feel of the difference?
The buttons on the settings page use touchend - notice how responsive these are in comparison to the hamburger button
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileOptions
jgonera wrote:
This is just the first step, it makes the UI more responsive only in a few places (but it's a start).
On iOS 4.3.2 the existing patch in alpha only seems to work if you bind to the document object rather than the window object. Very odd. Haven't found any reasoning to why..
Change 164402 had a related patch set uploaded by Jdlrobson:
Push microtap to stable.