One of the most important parts of creating an effective and intuitive user interface on touch-enabled smartphones has nothing to do with visual appearance—instead, it has to do with creating an interface that properly responds to user input based on touch. For Web applications, this means replacing mouse events with touch events. In Dojo 1.7, new touch APIs help make this process easy.This is an updated version of the post Touching and Gesturing on the iPhone, published in 2008.In the beginning…Before we discuss the new features in Dojo 1.7 that make touch interfaces easier to cr...