As such, I wouldn't expect my users to know to swipe them. I do agree that a help pane would do the trick, but personally I would probably lean towards an AlienBlue type of indication that the "cell" is actionable (the triangle showing Compressed or Uncompressed, and a row of icons that appears when you tap the cell, instead of the popup from the bottom).

That said, a JazzHands[0] type tutorial would serve perfectly fine too!

[0] https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands

Is it really too much to ask to implement swipe gestures in JavaScript? The world is mobile now. Whether this is actually cool or not I shall never know, it has disqualified itself from my web browsing time.

One tip: by default, the Delete key is mapped to Archive (though you can change that in Preferences to be Trash if you prefer that). A little faster than swiping.

  var addTouchListeners = function() {
    document.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) {
      touchStartX = e.touches[0].pageX;
    }, false);
    document.addEventListener('touchend', function(e) {
      var pixelsMoved = touchStartX - e.changedTouches[0].pageX;
      var SWIPE_SIZE = 150;
      if (pixelsMoved > SWIPE_SIZE) {
        nextSlide();
      }
      else if (pixelsMoved < -SWIPE_SIZE) {
       prevSlide();
      }
    }, false);
  };

There are many more changes, you can read about them in the new iOS 7 Human Interface Guidelines: http://www.slideshare.net/evgenybelyaev16/mobile-hig-2278458...

Alternatively, if you wanted to have some slick dragging action (so that a user could swipe a little, and control the rate at which the menu drawer opens), you could put a smaller (maybe 10-20% width) dragbox along the left-hand-side of the screen, and keep your selectable content to the right of that.

[0] http://eightmedia.github.io/hammer.js/

[1] http://codepen.io/notduncansmith/full/sthyJ/

iOS's heavy reliance on this gesture is a great example of how bad it's gotten. Unlike drawers, which usually have some kind of pullable tab, or reorderable items in a list, which have little icons indicating grabbable-ness, there is no visual cue that items can be swiped left. If you've never used iOS before, you have no way to delete important things unless you've been instructed how to from friends or iPhone-using ancestors.

Swiping doesn't work, nor are clues provided in detail view. The answer is that the delete button is hidden inside the Smiley Face/Like button, which was not intuitive to me. After all, if I want to delete a post I obviously don't like it and won't think to look there. As a caveat to what this article says, it would be better for swipe to be reappropriated to the expected behavior. This is going to be more of an issue if more apps adopt under-tableview navigation.

Swiping from the left screen edge to the right navigates back in any properly designed app.

Alternatively sheets are usually dismissed by swiping down.

Do you have particular apps or contexts in mind where this did not work?

Once I can figure out how to make one of those step-by-step walk-through tutorials I'll definitely add that to the app, because that functionality has absolutely 0 discoverability.

Actually, all of these three examples seem bad to me. I guess such hidden features make sense on an iPhone with small screen and one button, but there always has to be some indication that additional buttons are there. Conformng Android apps have a menu button, either hardware or on-screen, and you can always be sure to find functionality there. I really don't want to have to swipe around to find expected features.

I don't understand what problem is trying to be solved. Browsing web pages on the ipad is a pleasant experience. I can scroll with my finger. With onswipe, I can no longer scroll with my finger. Why was that a problem? that's not a problem. It doesn't need solving. Please tell us explicitly the value you are trying to add, because I cannot see it.

Although, testing with some apps right now it appears both ways works, but I have noticed that apps also generally include an edit button that then lets me select multiple items and do a particular action on them.