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In my earlier post I had written a simple demo to show the various transitions that are available with jQuery Mobile. The official documentation v1.0.1 for page transitions is available here . But with jQuery Mobile v1.1, the official documentation has been updated and is much better compared to the older version. You will also see the page looks much simpler and showcases how the transitions would look for pages and also dialogs. Just click on the buttons and you can see the live demo. Excellent work on updating the documentation. Also very exciting to see that two new transitions have been added, the Turn and the Flow . So now we have a total of 8 transitions that are available by default. Pretty cool. Of course the brave can extend the framework and try to create their own custom transitions using CSS3 and JS.

The idiot box finally graduates to an internet box! Internet on TV is catching on quite fast. I've been reading reports that predict a billion(s) dollar market that will open up for TV apps. Ah the hype .. these things are always in billions. But anyways, considering the number of people who have a TV and the number who watch it (almost everyone?), I guess this could be quite realistic. Many advantages I guess, lesser strain on the eyes, no burnt laps and no lost fertility with laptops on top of laps. I'm online 100% of the time. Definitely I stand to gain. My 6 year old kid too. I'd rather have him play Angry birds and all those HD games on TV compared to him holding my super heated mobile and straining his eyes watching the small screen. So now that I've made my point beyond all doubt, it is agreed that TV apps is the next big thing! So where do I start? I do not have an Internet TV yet! Not to despair, one could install the recently launched Opera TV Emulator...

" See one, Make one, Teach one! " - [video:  Charles McCathieNevile (Opera) , see @00:19:00] Working on a pet project, I stumbled upon jQuery Mobile a few months ago and have been hooked on to it since then. There were quite a few things that I learnt and few more things that I discovered. I started to blog a few posts on the topic and boy does it pay to blog! One morning I log on to my blog and find that the traffic had jumped by a few hundred page views within a single night. I used to have just a handful of daily visits earlier. Initial thought was that some bot had tried to wreck havoc on my blog. Eventually I found the true reason. My post on prefetching pages using jQuery Mobile , had been  retweeted by @jquerymobile . Traffic hasn't looked down since. Even today the number of pageviews on a daily basis, is tenfold more than the earlier days. Its been two months now. Within a week of this, I got an email by a leading international publisher asking if I w...