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

Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this. So just using touchstart or touchend will leave you with other problems like someone starts scrolling when click on on a button for example. We use zepto for a while, and even with this really good framework there are some issues that came up over the time. A lot of them are closed, but it seems is not a field of simple solution.

We have this solution to globally handle clicks on links:

   $(document.body).
    on('tap', 'a',function (e) {
      var href = this.getAttribute('href');
      if (e.defaultPrevented || !href) { return; }
      e.preventDefault();
      location.href= href;
    }).
    on('click', 'a', function (e) {
      e.preventDefault();
    });