[O] markdown -like syntax for html classes?

[Matt Price]

I have just been learning a very little bit about markdown, and love this syntax from markdown extra:

## Le Site ##    {.main .shine #the-site lang=fr}

The curly braces contain html attributes which are applied to the current html object 
(in this case, an <h2>).  

Does org support a similarly convenient shorthand? To me this feels much easier than
 #+ATTR+HTML:, though maybe it's just a personal preference.  

thx,

matt