[Daniel] Moving Back To HTML 4.01...

Via this and this, I'm moving away from XHTML 1 Strict to HTML 4.01 Strict. I've read several of the arguments against XHTML before (including Hixie's famous piece) but always felt that writing XHTML was easier for me to parse, validate and ensure a comparable cross-browser experience. That changed today, especially via the WebKit piece.

I've prided myself on XHTML compliance before, except that it was never really compliance. Always served with the wrong MIME type (so IE would display it), the browsers would always just convert it to tag soup anyhow, and any content I didn't control (YouTube videos, comments, etc.) never conformed anyhow. I always just explained it away as "doing the best thing for the web" by trying to do things "better".

I haven't changed the source of Snow-Wolf or any of the other sites I maintain yet but that will come soon. I'm actually lightly upset about this. I feel kinda stupid for sticking to it for so long, for arguing for it, only to lapse away. Yay me.