Delay initializaton for JQuery drag and drop plugins

Question

Is it possible to delay the jQuery UI drag and drop plugins from being initialized until a movement or click is made? Not sure if this is possible. I have a ton of cells using the drag and drop, like an Excel grid, and performance isnt great.

Answer 1

I went this route and it seems to work.

$.fn.liveDraggable = function (opts) {
    this.one("mouseover", function () {
        if (!$(this).data("init")) {
            $(this).data("init", true).draggable(opts);
        }
    });
    return this;
};