TouchSwipe Demo - to be viewed on touch based devices

Basics 6 - Click vs Swipe
You can also detect if the user simply clicks and does not swipe with the click handler

The click handler is passed the original event object and the target that was clicked.

If you use the jquery.ui.ipad.js plugin (http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui-for-ipad-and-iphone/) you can then also pickup standard jQuery mouse events on children of the touchSwipe object.