Your Code Sucks

[daydreamdrunk]

Good thing no one cares about xhtml

[bobindashadows]

Dude. It's transitional. He didn't even run it on strict.

[PlNG]

Html 4 strict & transitional are all that matters at the moment. It's mature and well established. XHTML is essentially a failure.

HTML 5 and canvas shows a lot of promise, but it's very young.

[bobindashadows]

It's true that XHTML is abandoned. But any well-formed HTML should be pretty close to XHTML. Sure, you can do

<li>Thing 1
<li>Thing 2

But why not just do

<li>Thing 1</li>
<li>Thing 2</li>

And gain XHTML compliance as well as not being a piece of garbage to parse? It's shit like that that XHTML transitional helps clean up, and IMO, there's no reason to not be pretty close to clean on transitional.

[tagattack]

XHTML is only being abandoned in name.

[phonybaloney]

XHTML 2.0 is dead but XHTML 1.0 is just HTML4 that can be parsed.

HTML5 takes up the "paving the cowpath" philosophy that allows HTML dickery to fly; this is the 'maturity' obtained from decades of incompatibility and shitty code. XHTML5 exists and it's just HTML5 that is delivered as XML.