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I am tired of $.mobile.changePage issues. I want to roll my own page transitions, is it possible?

in jQuery Mobile • 9 years ago

Hello,

I have many issues with changePage, it is slow, it is not consistent with scroll position for me, it uses display:none for inactive page that scrambles tiles positions set with masonry layout, but most importantly, it gets in a way of implementing the caching strategy that makes LinkedIn apps fly.

So my question is, how do I approach it?

And may be another question is, does anyone know of a better page transition code/plugin?
I was looking the other day at the transitions used in FirefoxOS core apps and they are cool, but not necessarily tested on other platforms (although seem to work on Chrome too).

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Gene Vayngrib

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Re: I am tired of $.mobile.changePage issues. I want to roll my own page transitions, is it possible?

9 years ago

I don't see how jQuery Mobile pages interfere with infinite scrolling as used by LinkedIn. That is simply a technique for scrolling infinate page content while managing memory use. In fact, there's a great infinite scrolling plugin for jQuery Mobile list views available on GitHub.

I think there may be some confusion because LinkedIn has chosen to refer to sections of infinately-scrolled content as "pages", but the word isn't used in the same sense as jQuery Mobile pages.

And may be another question is, does anyone know of a better page transition code/plugin?

I don't have any suggestions. But I'd like to make a correction. jQuery Mobile isn't a "page transition plugin". It's a UI framework. If you are using it as a page transition plugin, I can understand your frustration. If you are using jQuery Mobile for just a single feature, it is overkill, and there is almost certainly a more-targeted solution that will do a better job.

gene.vayn..

Re: I am tired of $.mobile.changePage issues. I want to roll my own page transitions, is it possible?

9 years ago

Thank you for your reply.

jQuery Mobile isn't a "page transition plugin". It's a UI framework

My point exactly. I want to continue using it as a UI framework, but want to use my own transitions, without breaking JQM's notion of active page, etc. I am not using JQM's ajax page loading, not using its routing. I am using backbone to manage those aspects. In the same venue I want JQM only to paint some UI components for me, like navbar, buttons, listview, panels, but all management of pages in DOM I want to do on my own.I already have a cache of past pages, but I do not want JQM for example to set display:none on my previous paged. I will instead use LinkedIn's techniques. I want to use also the real time management techniques developed by Sencha for their FastBook.

As to paging in JQM being so much different from Linkedin or Sencha, allow me to disagree. I understand infinite scrolling and am using it. But I want to do more. I want to create multi-dimentional html streams, where at any point in the page the orthogonal stream can start. For example, photos in Facebook client are horizontally scrollable inside current page. The good explanation of multidimensional streams can be seen in famo.us demo. This is why I am saying I want to control page transitions myself so that the user can swipe back as fast as possible, and if he chooses, swipe forward again with the same speed.

Hope this made sense.

Basically, if JQM transitions is a component, I want to replace it with a custom one.

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