| Recipe 25 | Mobile Drag and Drop |
Problem
We have a pop-up window on our website that we use to display product details. This pop-up is draggable so users can move the detail window to the side of the screen, allowing them to browse the site while the pop-up is visible. Unfortunately, we’ve received some feedback from users with iPads that they can’t move the pop-up windows.
Drag-and-drop functionality has been an easy feature to add to websites for a while now. Various plug-ins are available that can add it with little effort, and it’s not even that difficult to write from scratch. The problem with these plug-ins is that most of them don’t work on mobile devices, because they respond only to events triggered by the user’s mouse. We need to make ...
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