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		MatthewPhillips on Sept 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using jQuery’s Data APIs > Updating DOM attributes each time data was changed would slow things down for no good reason. TLDR: Only use HTML5 data-* attributes server side. Just use .data() to manipulate data in the client.

dmethvin on Sept 2, 2011 [–]

Yeah, that's exactly the scenario we were expecting: HTML markup would specify some data that would be used to initialize jQuery's data object.

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