When I say they, I mean the jQuery team, or whomever made the decisions to make the data api work that way. Clearly if someone was carefull in reading how the d

When I say they, I mean the jQuery team, or whomever made the decisions to make the data api work that way. Clearly if someone was carefull in reading how the data api interacted with the data-* attributes they would see what was going on. The blog post is helpful in pointing out what jQuery actually does. I am just not sure in a cursory look at the api it would click in someones mind that it worked like that.