My ultimate aim is to have an inline div on my page which horizontally scrolls natively (using -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch
) that also snaps.
I can achieve this without -webkit-overflow-scrolling
because I have access to the ontouchend
event, so I can calculate my snap when that happens, however, to achieve the best possible UX for this feature, I want to use native-like scrolling on this element.
The problem with using -webkit-overflow-scrolling is that using a flick/some force, the div will continue to scroll for a bit after you've taken your finger off (i.e. AFTER ontouchend
has fired); which means my snap calculates before the scrolling is finished.
Having spent a long time trying to find ways round, I have had no success yet.
In the entire page context, safari fires the onscroll
event when a scroll is finished. My question is, is it possible to have this event fire within the context of an element? i.e. have onscroll fire inside <div id="slideShow">
?
If not, is it possible to either
(a) Access velocity of a ontouchmove for example, so I could calculate when to run the snap?
or
(b) Emulate -webkit-overflow-scroll: touch (the elasticity and velocity effects).
NOTE: For the sake of example, using iPad w/ iOS5.
The
scroll
event gets fired on every scrolling container separately, and on iOS only after scrolling has stopped and is complete. You can simply listen for the scroll event on your container.Here is an example:
You will see the alert only when you have scrolled the text horizontally, not when the out div has been scrolled.