I recently heard a talk from Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode on the touch events in mobile. During the presentation PPK gave us a great sound bite to use when dealing with the 300ms delay many touch devices today use for capturing double-tap (zoom) events, which he called “stick with click”. Under “stick with click,” developers are discouraged from hijacking ontouchstart in an attempt to make click events occur without a noticeable delay. Though a good rule of thumb, I view it as more of a best practice rather than a hard-and-fast rule. And here’s why…

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