touchend event in ios webkit not firing?

Question

I\'m trying to implement a menu for a ios webkit based app in which the user touches/clicks and holds a menu button (\'.menu_item\'), after 500ms the sub menu opens (div.slide_u

Answer 1

touchend does not fire because touchcancel has fired earlier. If you want full touch evens handling you need to call

e.preventDefault()

in the callback of "touchmove" event, otherwise when a touchmove event occurs if the browser decides that this is a scroll event it will fire touchcancel and never fire touchend.