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

Answer 1

From the currently open issue, "Slide page transition causes screen repaint on iOS 5 chromeless", the recommendation is to comment out pageTitle.focus() from the reFocus function.

This however did not solve my problem. I found it necessary to remove both pageTitle.focus() and page.focus(), basically the entire function.

This issue (and specifically the change to the reFocus function) is also mentioned in issue 2474. It is a fix for iOS4 that did not solve my iOS5 iPad problem.