jQuery - How can I do "per element attribute evaluation"

I've got a tweaked version of the jQuery TimeAgo plugin.. the only tweaking is the fact that I can set custom attributes instead of global ones. The reason for this is so that I can have a suffix on some tags, and no suffix on others. This tweaking does work perfectly on it's own as I have tested it in different ways.

However, the way I'd like to select the elements/attributes is not working properly.

My markup has the following

<time data-suffixAgo="" datetime="2010-06-24T14:10:22Z" title="2010-06-24T14:10:22Z">开发者_JAVA百科4 months </time>
<time data-suffixAgo="ago" datetime="2010-11-10T06:00:44Z" title="2010-11-10T06:00:44Z">less than a minute ago</time>
<!-- note the data between the <title> tags is generated server side.
 I'm not talking about that data, just the jQuery information-->

And the output at runtime says

4 months ago
less than a minute ago

now the problem with this is that the "4 months ago" is not supposed to say "ago" because my data-suffixAgo attribute is blank

Here is the jQuery I'm using

// selects all "time" tags on the page and give the friendly "timeago"
// uses the jquery.timeago.js plugin
// all time tags are created using the "ToTimeSpan" Date Extension Method 
$('time').timeago({strings:{suffixAgo: $(this).attr("data-suffixAgo")}});

Can anyone tell my why my selector is not pulling the data-suffixAgo attribute on a per element basis?

If I use this

    $('time').timeago({strings:{suffixAgo: ""}});

the "ago" will be removed from all <time> tags, and if I do this

    $('time').timeago({strings:{suffixAgo: "ago"}});

the "ago" will be added to all <time> tags

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Try:

$('time').each(function(){
    $(this).timeago({
        strings: {suffixAgo: $(this).attr("data-suffixAgo") }
    });
});

The $(this) you have in your code refers to the whole set of $('time').