Flex Slider – Pan Gesture Stops the Slider

The Flex slider has logic to stop the slides from changing if the user touches a slide. With the small screen on a phone, the user is likely to touch a slide not because s/he wants to activate the link behind it, but because it’s just part of a panning gesture s/he is using to scroll the screen down. But the result is that the slides erroneously stop changing–and they don’t start again until you refresh the screen.

I’ve been able to work around this for my customer by commenting out the “slider.pause();” statement on line 408 of jquery.flexslider-min.js. But could this be fixed in a future revision? I assume the code needs distinguish a panning gesture (don’t stop the slider) from a simple tap (do stop the slider in advance of executing the link). It looks there may already be logic there to handle this but it has broken.

Thanks.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/