title: Hammer JS not working with backbone
body: <p>I'm trying to get hammer js events working with backbone but can't get it to respond to events.
  I've tried the following already..</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://cijug.net/tech/2013/01/16/backbone-hammer/">http://cijug.net/tech/2013/01/16/backbone-hammer/</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://gist.github.com/kjantzer/4279025">https://gist.github.com/kjantzer/4279025</a></p>
  
  <p>I've also put below piece of code in my view</p>
  
  <pre><code>initialize: function(){
      this.events = _.extend({}, this.defaultEvents, this.events||{});      
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>JS Fiddle : <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/XcYhD/">http://jsfiddle.net/XcYhD/</a></p>
  
  <p>Code</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="swiping"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  JS
  
  AppView = Backbone.View.extend({
  
    el: '#swiping',          
  
    events: {
      'swipe': 'swipeMe'
    },
  
    render: function(){             
      this.$el.html('&lt;h2&gt;Swipe Me&lt;/h2&gt;');
    },
  
    swipeMe: function(e){                
      alert('swiped ' + e.direction);
    }
  
  });
  
  var view = new AppView();
  view.render(); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Libraries Included - hammer.js , jquery.specialevent.hammer.js , etc..</p>
  
  <p>Anyway to get it working ?</p>