Usually, it's a good idea to store your app's pages in several single-page templates instead of one large multi-page template. This minimizes the size of the page's DOM.
-When using single-page templates, you can prefetch pages into the DOM so that they're available instantly when the user visits them. To prefetch a page, add the data-prefetch attribute to a link that points to the page. jQuery Mobile then loads the target page in the background after the primary page has loaded and the pagecreate event has triggered. For example:
When using single-page templates, you can prefetch pages into the DOM so that they're available instantly when the user visits them. To prefetch a page, add the data-prefetch attribute to a link that points to the page. jQuery Mobile then loads the target page in the background after the primary page has loaded and the pagecreate event has triggered. For example:
<a href="prefetchThisPage.html" data-prefetch> ... </a>
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ $.mobile.loadPage( pageUrl, { showLoadMsg: false } );
For animated page transitions to work, the pages you're transitioning from and to both need to be in the DOM. However, keeping old pages in the DOM quickly fills the browser's memory, and can cause some mobile browsers to slow down or even crash.
- jQuery Mobile therefore has a simple mechanism to keep the DOM tidy. Whenever it loads a page via Ajax, jQuery Mobile flags the page to be removed from the DOM when you navigate away from it later (technically, on the pagehide event). If you revisit a removed page, the browser may be able to retrieve the page's HTML file from its cache. If not, it refetches the file from the server. (In the case of nested list views, jQuery Mobile removes all the pages that make up the nested list once you navigate to a page that's not part of the list.)
+ jQuery Mobile therefore has a simple mechanism to keep the DOM tidy. Whenever it loads a page via Ajax, jQuery Mobile flags the page to be removed from the DOM when you navigate away from it later (technically, on the pagehide event). If you revisit a removed page, the browser may be able to retrieve the page's HTML file from its cache. If not, it refetches the file from the server. (In the case of nested list views, jQuery Mobile removes all the pages that make up the nested list once you navigate to a page that's not part of the list.)
Pages inside a multi-page template aren't affected by this feature at all - jQuery Mobile only removes pages loaded via Ajax.