Click event called twice on touchend in iPad

iPad both understands touchstart/-end and mousestart/-end.

Is gets fired like this:

┌─────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│Finger enters tablet │ Finger leaves tablet │ Small delay after leave │
├─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│touchstart           │ touchend             │ mousedown               │
│                     │                      │ mouseup                 │
└─────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

You have to detect if the user is on a tablet and then relay on the touch start things…:

/********************************************************************************
* 
* Dont sniff UA for device. Use feature checks instead: ('touchstart' in document) 
*   The problem with this is that computers, with touch screen, will only trigger 
*   the touch-event, when the screen is clicked. Not when the mouse is clicked.
* 
********************************************************************************/
var isIOS = ((/iphone|ipad/gi).test(navigator.appVersion));
var myDown = isIOS ? "touchstart" : "mousedown";
var myUp = isIOS ? "touchend" : "mouseup";

and then bind it like this:

$('#next_item').bind(myDown, function(e) { 

You can also make a event that takes care of it, see:

http://benalman.com/news/2010/03/jquery-special-events/

Basic normalized down event:

$.event.special.myDown = {
    setup: function() {
        var isIOS = ((/iphone|ipad/gi).test(navigator.appVersion));
        var myDown = isIOS ? "touchstart" : "mousedown";
        $(this).bind(myDown + ".myDownEvent", function(event) {
            event.type = "myDown";
            $.event.handle.call(this, event);
        });
    },
    teardown: function() {
        $(this).unbind(".myDownEvent");
    }
};

After jQuery 1.9.0 $.event.handle changed name to $.event.dispatch, to support both you can write use this fallback:

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15653917/jquery-1-9-1-event-handle-apply-alternative
// ($.event.dispatch||$.event.handle).call(this, event);
$.event.special.myDown = {
    setup: function() {
        var isIOS = ((/iphone|ipad/gi).test(navigator.appVersion));
        var myDown = isIOS ? "touchstart" : "mousedown";
        $(this).bind(myDown + ".myDownEvent", function(event) {
            event.type = "myDown";
            ($.event.dispatch||$.event.handle).call(this, event);
        });
    },
    teardown: function() {
        $(this).unbind(".myDownEvent");
    }
};