Ok, so im trying to work out the fastest way of storing data on my page without slowing the page load:

• I need to store information in the page to be later used by jquery.
• My page is an events page and i want to attach data to each event anchor.
• there are 100+ events to attach data to.

The events anchors are created with a php loop, so i could create the data elements within this loop using either

1. use un-semantic tags ie *rel="some_data"*
2. create a jquery.data() for each iteration of the loop

or i could run the loop again, separately, this time inside script tags with jquery.data();

would really appreciate any thoughts on this!