title: HTML vs XHTML does it still matter?
body: <p>I'm wondering if I should bother at all about the markup language, as long as i produce valid markup.</p>
  
  <p>I've read articles that point out HTML is the best choice and they come directly from the horse's mouth (the browsers implementors!):</p>
  
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  <li><a href="http://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/" rel="noreferrer">http://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Web_Developer_FAQ" rel="noreferrer">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Web_Developer_FAQ</a></li>
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  <p>Other articles, by James Bennet, make another point that if you're not serving XHTML as XML then you don't want XHTML but HTML.</p>
  
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  <li><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/jun/18/html/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/jun/18/html/</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/jun/21/xhtml/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/jun/21/xhtml/</a></li>
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  <p>So i thought that if i wanted to trigger Standard Compliant Mode i should just use HTML strict validation. But that's not the case anymore with at least the most modern browsers (aka everything but IE6): if you have valid XHTML Strict you still trigger Standard Compliant Mode, hence, as long as i produce valid markup, why bother?</p>