On 09/10/2005, at 0.59, Andreas Wahlin wrote:
The beauty of XHTML is you can then parse it with XML parsers and do tricks with that, etc etc. [...]
ah, didn't really think of it that way ... well, persuasive arguments indeed. I'll probably have to stick with xhtml then :) On the other hand, there are issues with MIME types, that no one will probably notice anyways ... http://www.webstandards.org/learn/askw3c/sep2003.html
The link is currently down (it seems), but there's also this:
http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
Which basically says: stick with HTML 4, because what's currently happening is, that a lot of people deliver broken HTML (as text/ html), and it probably wouldn't validate as strict XHTML (if delivered as application/xml+xhtml, which one can't really use because of lacking browser support, but which changes how the document should validate).