asudoh/dojox_mvc — comment on commit 1640a48fd587a1a164dfbac87e857bd8b47c4544
File: _DataBindingMixin.js line 185
By edchat:

The idea in the spec about removing the ref : {} from the data-dojo-props would come into play here, because the thought was to look for dojox.mvc.at to know it was a binding. If we keep the ref: in the data-dojo-props then we could allow a custom implementation. And that may be a good reason to keep it, in addition to potential performance concerns.