I'm looking for a good HTML annotation method so that I can pass metadata for html tags to jQuery scripts.
I found this page http://www.1729.com/blog/HtmlAnnotations.html which surveys 9 different mechanisms. So far, I've tried the first mechanism (JSON in a script tag before the element to be annotated), which fails because of http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/7d25002ada8d15f7/33317d9c68f1b154. Then I found the article, and tried the last mechanism (HTML comments). However, jQuery appears to have no mechanism for selecting comments. I've worked around this by using the native DOM traversal functions. However, I'm sure my code would be more robust if this was supported within jQuery. Will jQuery support comment extraction in the future? Does anybody have any other nice HTML annotation techniques? thanks, Bryan
