canceling touchend event when touchmove starts

Question

I have a scrollable list in my web app, using scrollability to deal with the overflow:scroll feature. although when I finish scrolling and take my finger out of the screen the event bellow also triggers.

$('li').live('touchend', function (e) {
    //...
});

The thing is that I only would like this event above to fire when the action there's no touchmove event before that.

it is possible to suppress a touchend event from inside the touchmove event? so it simulates better the iOS UITableView component? where when touchmove starts it cancels the target for touchend

Answer 1

Set a flag in touchmove which can be tested in touchend and if the flag is set, just skip the functionality and possibly preventDefault() (either way, reset the flag at the end).