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1 | | -# dragdroptouch |
| 1 | +# DragDropTouch |
| 2 | + |
2 | 3 | Polyfill that enables HTML5 drag drop support on mobile (touch) devices. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +The HTML5 specification includes support for drag and drop operations. |
| 6 | +Unfortunately, most mobile browsers do not implement it, so applications |
| 7 | +that rely on HTML5 drag and drop have reduced functionality when running |
| 8 | +on mobile devices. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +The DragDropTouch class is a polyfill that translates touch events into |
| 11 | +standard HTML5 drag drop events. If you add the polyfill to your pages, |
| 12 | +drag and drop operations should work on mobile devices just like they |
| 13 | +do on the desktop. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## Demo |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +- [drag drop](http://timruffles.github.io/ios-html5-drag-drop-shim/demo/) |
| 18 | +- [drag drop with enter leave support](http://timruffles.github.io/ios-html5-drag-drop-shim/enter-leave/) |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +The demo should work on desktop as well as on mobile devices, including |
| 21 | +iPads and Android tablets. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +The top section of the demo is based on a well-known HTML5 drag and drop |
| 24 | +sample available here: |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +The following sections demonstrate how the polyfill works with |
| 27 | +standards-based components that use HTML5 drag and drop. You can use |
| 28 | +touch to resize and reorder grid columns, data groups, and pivot |
| 29 | +fields. |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +## Install |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +Add the DragDropTouch.js polyfill to your page to enable drag and drop on mobile devices: |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +```html |
| 36 | +<script src="DragDropTouch.js"></script> |
| 37 | +``` |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +## Polyfill behaviour |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +The **DragDropTouch** polyfill attaches listeners to the document's touch events: |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +- On **touchstart**, it checks whether the target element has the draggable attribute |
| 44 | + or is contained in an element that does. If that is the case, it saves a reference |
| 45 | + to the "drag source" element and prevents the default handling of the event. |
| 46 | +- On **touchmove**, it checks whether the touch has moved a certain threshold distance |
| 47 | + from the origin. If that is the case, it raises the **dragstart** event and continues |
| 48 | + monitoring moves to fire **dragenter** and **dragleave**. |
| 49 | +- On **touchend**, it raises the **dragend** and **drop** events. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +To avoid interfering with the automatic browser translation of some touch events into |
| 52 | +mouse events, the polyfill performs a few additional tasks: |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +- Raise the **mousemove**, **mousedown**, **mouseup**, and **click** events when the |
| 55 | + user touches a draggable element but doesn't start dragging, |
| 56 | +- Raise the **dblclick** event when there's a new touchstart right after a click, and |
| 57 | +- Raise the **contextmenu** event when the touch lasts a while but the user doesn't |
| 58 | + start dragging the element. |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +## Thanks |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +Thanks to Eric Bidelman for the great tutorial on HTML5 drag and drop: [Native HTML5 Drag and Drop] (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/dnd/basics/). |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +Thanks also to Chris Wilson and Paul Kinlan for their article on mouse and touch events: [Touch And Mouse] (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/touchandmouse/). |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +## License |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +[MIT License](LICENSE) |
| 69 | + |
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