Am I using code to do binding? Yes. Do we bind to HTML or something that -- after being parsed -- turns into HTML? HTML. The advantages are significant. First

Am I using code to do binding? Yes. Do we bind to HTML or something that -- after being parsed -- turns into HTML? HTML. The advantages are significant. First -- you have to know HTML. Second -- all the code that works on HTML works on HTML. We use data attributes to make the binding work. The data attributes are a "template language" if you will, but it's not breaking HTML (and if you read our attributes they make sense without much documentation).