rewriteBase

[ArakTaiRoth]

Added an option, rewriteBase, that can enable (by default) or disable the rewriting of the base element or urls. This may be needed by groups that are already rewriting their base element or urls for some other purpose.

[johnbender]

As a side note to anyone viewing the single commit diff adding ?w=1 makes it much easier to review 👍

[johnbender]

@ArakTaiRoth,

This is a good idea, but I'm worried that the base variable, and subsequently, $.mobile.base are two very different types in the patch depending on the rewriteBase attribute. That is, if it's enabled base is a singleton object and if it's not base is a string. It seems like this will likely be a source of bugs down the road.

I still need to take a closer look to see what's involved, but the idea is a good one and something I think we should support.

[ArakTaiRoth]

If you have any suggestions on a different path you would like to go, I would be happy to look into them for you and see what I can implement.

[ArakTaiRoth]

I'll be honest, this was done really quickly as it was a required change for the company I work for in order to be able to use jQuery Mobile, so I didn't do a lot of research into it and how to implement it, I just grabbed something that worked in my specific situation and threw it in.

[johnbender]

@ArakTaiRoth

I'm going to move this to a feature request and close it. We're looking to address these types of things in 1.2

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Feature-Requests