Hack to override the the changePage handler in jQuery Mobile, so data can be passed to the "page" using a "__" in the data-url and appending the data to be passed after this delimiter. The nice part of this is that the resulting url can be used to bookmar

overrideChangePage.js

// Copyright: Asad Awan
// license: Apache

var utils: {
    overrideChangePage: function() {
        var cp = $.mobile.changePage;
        $.mobile.changePage = function(url, opts) {
            if (typeof(url) == 'string') {
                var o = url.split('#');
                if (o.length == 2) {
                    var base = o[0];
                    var s = o[1].split('__');
                    if (s.length == 2) {
                        utils.globalData = s[1];
                        url = base + '#' + s[0];
                    }
                }
            }
            cp(url, opts);
        };
    }
}