Eliminate 300ms delay on click events in mobile Safari

Question

I\'ve read that mobile Safari has a 300ms delay on click events from the time the link/button is clicked to the time the event fires. The reason for the delay is to wait to

Answer 1

I've come across a hugely popular alternative called Hammer.js (Github page) which I think is the best approach.

Hammer.js is a more full-featured touch library (has many swipe commands) than Fastclick.js (most upvoted answer).

Beware though: scrolling fast on mobile devices tends to really lock up the UI when you use either Hammer.js or Fastclick.js. This is a major problem if your site has a newsfeed or an interface where users will be scrolling a lot (would seem like most web apps). For this reason, I'm using neither of these plugins at the moment.