What is the difference between the click and tap events?
I am developing an app that runs on Android/iOS and desktop computers. Should I use the click or the tap event? What are the differences between them? Will the 'tap' work on desktop? if not, (and I have to use click ) am I missing any advantages that the tap has over the click ? Touch events and mouse events are entirely different beasts. They are not interchangeable. That said, I'm using jQuery Touch Punch which maps touch events to their mouse event analogs, so a tap becomes the same thing as a click. This makes it possibly to use all the standard jQuery UI goodness without having to do any