It’s been over a year since I last touched my bookmark browser, and it needed some attention. There were a couple of outstanding bugs to deal with, plus it seemed like a good time to update the various libraries it uses.
One bug that occasionally cropped up is logging in for the first time and changing to the bookmark page, but having nothing show up. If I did a full refresh of the page then everything would be fine. I never quite figured out what was going on, until now. I assumed there was something I wasn’t doing right with Knockout, so I tried moving the code that does the bindings from the PageBeforeShow event for the bookmark page to right after the AJAX call that gets the data. But that didn’t help. Turns out it was something simple: the bookmark container is initially hidden, and I was never showing it after the first successful login, assuming the app was started in a logged-out state. The solution was showing the container right after the bindings were applied.
And speaking of content not showing right, it suddenly became necessary to add an explicit jQuery Mobile refresh call on the list that holds the bookmark data, like this:
$("#bmMain").listview("refresh");
Without such a call none of the jQuery Mobile styles would be applied unless I did a full page refresh. Not sure why, but whatever. The latest version did resolve a weird style issue with the bookmark menu list showing a double border around each list item, so that’s good.
