Description
According to http://api.jquerymobile.com/pageinit/ :
This event has been deprecated in 1.4.0 in favor of pagecreate. Simply replace pageinit in the above example.
However, these two events do not appear to be interchangeable, according to the docs at least.
http://api.jquerymobile.com/pageinit/ :
Triggered on the page being initialized, after initialization occurs.
http://api.jquerymobile.com/pagecreate/ :
Triggered when the page has been created in the DOM (via ajax or other) but before all widgets have had an opportunity to enhance the contained markup.
In other words, pageinit fires after all widget plugins have completed their markup enhancements, whereas pagecreate fires before (or during) the enhancement process.
That said, in my own testing in 1.4, pagecreate now appears to fire after all widgets have been enhanced, making it a direct replacement for pageinit. If that is true then the description at http://api.jquerymobile.com/pagecreate/ needs to be updated.