Can anybody tell me why this onTouch handler isn't firing.
var myDiv = document.getElementById('existingContent');
var myButton = '<a href="#" onClick="logOut();" ontouch="logOut()">log out</a>';
myDiv.appendChild(myButton);
function logOut() {
alert('hello');
}
I am using iPad 1.
My recommendation would be the same as the one proposed here on MDN:
var el = document.getElementsByTagName("canvas");
el.addEventListener("touchstart", handleStart, false);
My hesitation with the ontouch attribute is cross-device support. For this you might consider feature detection.
Modernizr is a popular way to determine if touch is enabled at runtime.
If the events above are enabled, the classes touch or no-touch would be added to the html element and used to determine if the code above should run.
EDIT:
In subsequent days I ran across this document describing Touch Events. As with much of technology, there is still more to it...