A recent issue with JavaScript devlopment that I’ve come across on Mobile Safari (note: not desktop Safari) is that if you add an event listener to a DOM node and for whatever reason keep a reference to the Event object you receive, you’ll run into errors.
This is because the same Event object is reused, with its properties being updated every time. I presume this is to conserve memory on mobile devices, as it is both in short supply and causes too much garbage collection, the enemy of responsive UIs.
The simple solution is, rather than caching the Event object (a bad idea any as it prevents it being garbage collected on other platforms), take what information you need from it, such as touch coordinates, and cache those instead.
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