Detecting iPhone Swipe with jQuery

Question

I'm simply looking for a listener that will detect the swipe of a finger on a touch device.

For example;

 if (swipe.direction == 'left' ) {
     function();
 }

Answer 1

With jQueryMobile you can use several events, such as swipe, or even swipeleft, swiperight, tap, etc.

http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/api/events.html

Answer 2

You can use this jquery plugin

http://www.netcu.de/jquery-touchwipe-iphone-ipad-library