rwldrn/jquery-mobile-badge — pull request #4 by johnbender (2012-01-19 01:14:14+00:00)
Title: Possible confusion with the removal of the original dom element.

This is *really* grasping at straws, but if an end user wanted to manually create and invoke your plugin while maintaining a cached reference to the original span it would cause some confusion. You could define an update method on the widget that handled it for you, or you could just move the span.

Again: straws. I'm grasping them.