Unifying Touch And Click Events

I'd assume this question has been asked to death, but I'm not finding anything good. What I'd like is a unified set of events that span devices. I know the mapping isn't always 1 t

Solution 1:

jQuery Mobile does exactly this, amongst many other things.

See their documentation on virtual mouse events, which:

... provide a set of "virtual" mouse events that attempt to abstract away mouse and touch events