jQuery Mobile blinking at page transitions on iPad

Question

I have a web app built with jQuery Mobile that works fine when using it in Safari on an iPad. However, when you add it to the home screen to use it as a standalone app (with the browser navigation removed by , then the page transitions "blink" quickly after each page transition.

I have Googled on this and found that blinking was considered a bug a long time ago, and by now should be fixed. And it seems to be in Safari, but not as standalone from home screen. Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it?

Does it have anything to do with the fact that the navigation bar is not there? It works fine as standalone on iPhone though, it's only on the iPad that it occurs...

I would accept as an answer even if someone can show me that this is a known bug (not one of the old bugs that have already been fixed, where it flickered even in Safari mode) or if someone has inside knowledge about that (no one is answering my question at the jQuery forum either...). But of course I would love it if someone actually had a workaround for the problem!

Answer 1

i had exactly the same problem

http://mailinglist-archive.com/rhomobile/2011-08/00656-Re+rhomobile+page+views+and+transitions mentions something that worked for me.

<style>
/*** patch for jquerymobile page flicker that was happending ***/
    .ui-page {
        -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
    } 
</style>

I still get the flicker in the toolbar, so I converted my tool bar to :

<ul data-theme="b" data-role="listview" style="margin-top: 0;">
     <li data-role="list-divider">Your text goes here</li>...