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jQuery Mobile Page Caching demo

In my previous post , I outlined how to prefetch links to make jQuery mobile app load your pages faster. The ui-loader spinning animation was not shown as you navigate from one page to another. Launch   - The previous example with prefetch But, as also mentioned, it has certain limitations, If there are more pages, more http requests are sent out and more bandwidth is required to prefetch If a page hasn't been fully prefetched, the ui-loader spinner animation comes up till the page is fully loaded. Try to click fast and you will see Once you visit a prefetched page, navigating away from the page will remove the page from DOM. So this is not same as caching the page. The next visit to the page will again need the page to be fetched. So the obvious solution seems to be to cache the frequently visited pages in the DOM. This way, every link doesn't have to be prefetched on every visit to the page. This is easily done in jQuery Mobile by adding the attribute data-dom-cach