I\'m using the new jqm popup with the 1.2.0 alpha release and my problem is that my page from which I call the popup is refreshed uselessly when closing the popup using esc
Found this post while having a similar problem on IE11 with jQuery Mobile 1.4.5
I found that I could prevent the "reload" when closing the popup by declaring the popup with the data-history="false" attribute in my HTML.
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