dear lazyweb,

[zwol]

exactly which circle of browser compatibility hell will I be doomed to if I make up my own DIV attributes in a (machine generated) HTML page for the benefit of the Javascript program inside? I mean, like, <div id="foo" xprev="bar" xnext="quux"> instead of having on-the-side associative arrays. (Does Javascript even have associative arrays? It must, but all the documentation I can find online fails to inform, and fails to inspire confidence in what little information it does provide.)

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[xorphus.livejournal.com]

Adding attributes will invalidate the XML and throw the browser into quirks mode, so your styling will probably look different than you expect, but it's not going to blow anything up. Afaik.