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		eli on July 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to use HTML5 to make your CSS look like brainf... Ick. I think I'd rather just break my HTML and add random attributes.

qeorge on July 12, 2010 [–]

Why is that better? You can use JSON here.

(I say this as someone who used to use random HTML attributes.)

eli on July 12, 2010 | [–]

I find it aesthetically displeasing, and I'm not convinced that abusing the class attribute to store metadata is "more correct" than just adding your own attributes which.

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