diff --git a/docs/pages/docs-transitions.html b/docs/pages/docs-transitions.html
index 3a0dd7ba..8debbfdc 100755
--- a/docs/pages/docs-transitions.html
+++ b/docs/pages/docs-transitions.html
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 		<a href="transition-success.html" data-role="button" data-rel="dialog" data-transition="flip">flip</a>
 		</p>
 		
-		<p>In addition, you can also force a "backwards" transition by specifying <code>data-back="true"</code> on your link.</p>
+		<p>In addition, you can also force a "backwards" transition by specifying <code>data-direction="reverse"</code> on your link. Note: (this was formerly <code>data-back="true"</code>, which will remain supported until 1.0)</p>
 		
 		<div class="ui-body ui-body-e">
 			<p><strong>Transitions from <a href="http://www.jqtouch.com/">jQtouch</a></strong> (<em>with small modifications</em>): Built by David Kaneda and maintained by Jonathan Stark.</p>
diff --git a/docs/pages/transition-success.html b/docs/pages/transition-success.html
index 1c0f38c5..b7567acd 100644
--- a/docs/pages/transition-success.html
+++ b/docs/pages/transition-success.html
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 		<p>That was an animated page transition effect that we added with a <code>data-transition</code> attribute on the link.</p>
 		<p>Since it uses CSS transforms, this should be hardware accelerated on many mobile devices.</p>
 		<p>What do you think?</p>
-		<a href="docs-transitions.html" data-role="button" data-theme="b">I like it</a>   
+		<a href="docs-transitions.html" data-role="button" data-theme="b" data-direction="reverse">I like it</a>   
 	</div>
 </div>
 
diff --git a/js/jquery.mobile.dialog.js b/js/jquery.mobile.dialog.js
index 6d22d121..b1747957 100644
--- a/js/jquery.mobile.dialog.js
+++ b/js/jquery.mobile.dialog.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ $.widget( "mobile.dialog", $.mobile.widget, {
 					return;
 				}
 
-				if( e.type == "click" && ( $(e.target).closest('[data-back]')[0] || this==$closeBtn[0] ) ){
+				if( e.type == "click" && this==$closeBtn[0] ){
 					self.close();
 					return false;
 				}
diff --git a/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js b/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js
index 9dbbb29a..c272bab6 100644
--- a/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js
+++ b/js/jquery.mobile.navigation.js
@@ -573,7 +573,10 @@
 		else {
 			//use ajax
 			var transition = $this.data( "transition" ),
-				reverse = $this.data( "back" );
+				direction = $this.data("direction"),
+				reverse = direction && direction == "reverse" || 
+				// deprecated - remove by 1.0
+				$this.data( "back" );
 
 			nextPageRole = $this.attr( "data-rel" );