How to use jQuery Mobile and Backbone JS together in one app?

Question

I\'ve been enjoying using Backbone JS for a iPad HTML5 project... But I\'m quickly running into a issue of needing iPad-ish transitions, form elements etc. After looking around,

Answer 1

It seems that the JQuery Mobile team has made a conscious decision to not support the sort of dynamic applications the Backbone.js targets. From the alpha 4 release notes:

After 1.0 is out, the project be focusing on ... dynamic applications, expanded widget set, and ... A more detailed roadmap is underway and we’ll share it as we get closer to our 1.0 release.

Further evidence for this is the removal of the autoInitialize option as they went from alpha 3 to alpha 4: issue 1391

So for now, we need workarounds. An alternative answer is to help fix outstanding JQM bugs and push it closer to 1.0, so we can get dynamic application features into JQM ASAP.