getBoundingClientRect not implemented on iOS 3.0

[clark-pan]

getBoundingClientRect is currently only being used to calculate the container width.

The method doesn't exist on iOS 3.0, which iphone 3gs are bundled with.

Is there any reason why another method isn't used? (ie clientWidth?)

[Bubbi]

It could be nice to have an updated version, where this were fixed.
I found an article, that might be useful for a workaround:
http://help.dottoro.com/ljvmcrrn.php

Here they show how to achieve it with some small workarounds for older browsers. It could be great to have that implemented. Especially because a lot still use iPhone 3.

[clark-pan]

It seems to have been fixed in swipe2 by defaulting to clientWidth if getBoundingClientRect is unavailable, so thats how i updated my copy of the code.

Since we're only using the width property of the element anyways, why use getBoundingClientRect at all? The performance on this method is pretty attrocious.