Does html5 support touch on mobile phones?

Question

I was wondering if html5 is supporting touch functionality on a mobile device native? So we don't have to make an native app for iOS/Android/WP7 but can make an html5 page which loads in the mobile browser.

EDIT

I mean the JavaScript support for touch native in the browser so you can do you own thing with the touch in html5.

Answer 1

Depends on the type of touch event. For your standard browser click/mouse events these are emulated by the browser. As mentioned by Halst, just make your clickable elements big enough to work in a mobile environment.

If you want to use multitouch/gestures, it gets a little more interesting.

Webkit provides touchstart, touchmove, touchend, touchcancel. For single touch events support should be the same in both IOS Safari and Android Webkit. You could roll your own or use a library like jqTouch.

You can read more on how IOS Safari handles touch events. Events for Android don't seem to be as well documented, but you can read more on quirksmode touch support.