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A lot easier said that done.

There are multiple compatibility issues:

- Potentially conflicting CSS
- Potentially conflicting variable names (e.g. "$")
- jQuery Mobile's "page" model, which is not a concept that exists in HTML
- Reliance on $(document).ready() which is generally not useful in JQM. This ties into the assumption that a page = a document
- no industry standards on how to trigger creation or refresh of widgets (OK, some hope if the framework uses jQuery as a base)
- Potentially conflicting underlying query libraries (jQuery vs. ???)

Any such effort would likely require cooperation and modification of both the framework and jQuery Mobile. If it could be accomplished with changes only to one product, it would be much more practical to modify the framework to work with jQuery Mobile, rather than the other way around, which would likely be impossible.

For example, when a framework adds/removes/replaces some element on the page, jQuery Mobile generally needs to be notified in some way, and it varies depending on what was done. It may require, for example, triggering a create, refresh, or updatelayout event. So, the framework requires knowledge of JQM, or else the developer needs to add this code themselves to the code doing the adding/removing/replacing. If that's even possible in the framework.

For JQM to detect this itself would be impractical. It could monkey-patch the underlying DOM methods to override every possible way of altering the DOM. But this would likely be tremendously complex, slow, and full of browser-specific dependencies.

Are there frameworks that specifically support jQuery Mobile? I think perhaps that jQuery Mobile is simply too new for that, and so if not, we should see frameworks emerge that are compatible and that can ease the developer's burden.

This really goes for both front-end and back-end (and front-end/back-end) frameworks. Rails comes to mind.

I was thinking of much simpler solution.