Try inserting this "driver" into your page code, and let us know if it works . . . It seems to be working on my site which had the same problem:
//Mouse & Touch -> Consistent Click / Mouse Commands -> Useful driver
(function() {
var isTouch = false;
var simulated_flag = 'handler_simulated';
var touch_click_array = {};
const clickMoveThreshold = 20; //Pixels
function mouseHandler(event) {
if (isTouch) {
if (!event.hasOwnProperty(simulated_flag)) {
//Unreliable mouse commands - In my opinion
var fixed = new jQuery.Event(event);
fixed.preventDefault();
fixed.stopPropagation();
}
}
else {
//Mouse commands are consistent
//TODO: generate corresponding touches
}
}
function mouseFromTouch(type, touch) {
var event = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
event.initMouseEvent(type, true, true, window, 1, touch.screenX, touch.screenY, touch.clientX, touch.clientY
, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
event[simulated_flag] = true;
touch.target.dispatchEvent(event);
};
function touchHandler(event) {
var touches = event.changedTouches
,first = touches[0]
,type = ""
;
if (!event.hasOwnProperty(simulated_flag)) {
isTouch = true;
//Simulate mouse commands
switch (event.type) {
case "touchstart":
for (var i = 0; i < touches.length; i++) {
var touch = touches[i];
touch_click_array[touch.identifier] = { x: touch.screenX, y: touch.screenY };
}
mouseFromTouch("mousedown", first);
break;
case "touchmove":
for (var i = 0; i < touches.length; i++) {
var touch = touches[i];
var id = touch.identifier;
var data = touch_click_array[id];
if (data !== undefined) {
if (Math.abs(data.x - touch.screenX) + Math.abs(data.y - touch.screenY) > clickMoveThreshold) {
delete touch_click_array[id];
}
}
}
mouseFromTouch("mousemove", first);
break;
case "touchcancel":
//Not sure what should happen here . . .
break;
case "touchend":
mouseFromTouch("mouseup", first);
for (var i = 0; i < touches.length; i++) {
var touch = touches[i];
if (touch_click_array.hasOwnProperty(touch.identifier)) {
mouseFromTouch("click", touch);
delete touch_click_array[touch.identifier];
}
}
break;
}
}
}
document.addEventListener("mousedown", mouseHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("mousemove", mouseHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("mouseup", mouseHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("click", mouseHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("touchstart", touchHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("touchmove", touchHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("touchcancel", touchHandler, true);
document.addEventListener("touchend", touchHandler, true);
})();
Now it isn't a 100% complete script - multi-touch would probably be a little wonky, and if you built an interface depending on touch commands, it doesn't generate those in this version. But, it fixed my link-clicking problem.
Erm - ps - it's using jQuery. If you need a non-jQuery version, you can probably just remove the new jQuery.Event from the mouseHandler() function (in other words, use the original event: var fixed = event;), and I believe most browsers would be ok. I am not exactly a js compatibility expert though.
PPS - Tested with Android 1.6
PPPS - Had to modify script to allow a threshold - actual devices were having some problems with a move event being fired during the press. Probably not ideal; if anyone wants to chime in on a better way for doing that, I'd be interested in hearing...