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
Unfortunately, none of the suggestions actually solved the problem, at least not for me. However, finally it has been fixed in the latest stable version of jQuery mobile (1.1.0), so the problem is finally gone! I just had to go in and change the global transition back to slide, because they set it to fade:
$(document).bind("mobileinit", function () {
$.extend($.mobile, {
defaultPageTransition: 'slide'
});
});
Hope this helps someone else who perhaps hadn't noticed the update.