stopping the url bar from dropping down - i discovered a workaround
if you remove the "href="#" or href="myurl" from the HTML or dynamically generated listItems and instead deal with it in a click listener calling mobile.changePage, the url bar does not drop down.
this is annoying to have to do this in code, but the dropdown is more annoying and ruins the feeling of an app.
examples of workaround
$(btnExercise).click(function() {
$.mobile.changePage("#exercisePage", defaultTransition, false, true);
});
when dynamically generating a list, if i use <a href="#"...> on my list items, click on them drops down the URL bar. If I remove the href="#" clicking on them does NOT drop down the URL bar. So this fixes my problem for lists as well.
seems to me that the capability exists to stop the dropdown and it should be implemented in jquerymobile framework.