Hi, I've seen searching lately for a good way of storing preferences which a jQuery script needs later on. The specific information the script needs is the starting state of a <div> element (either open or closed). The preferences are stored in a DB and sent from there somehow to the browser. The "sent" and "storing" part is now the part I am searching for.
After searching around for a while I found several ideas/solutions. But none seems to be perfect for me. So I wanted to ask you what is the best way to do it: 1) Store the information in an invincible <div> at the end of the page. And then parse this div. E.g: <div id="prefs"> var1: value1; var2: value2; </div> 2) The js-script gets generated each time the page is called. And the corresponding vars are set in there. 3) Every time the page is loaded the js-script asks the server for a XML (or JSON) file with the preferences in there. 4) Write a XHTML DTD module in order to extend the div element with a state-attribute. E.g: <div state="closed"> 5) More (and better) ideas? To say is that those pages are often reloaded. From my point of view 3) generates to much traffic on the net. 1) is just a hack and therefor not really a good solution. I have my jQuery scripts already in an external file. This way they can be cached by the browser and don't have to be sent every time. So I don't really like 2) either. Right now I would go with 4) unless someone has a better idea. Does anybody have a better solution? Raffael _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
