Robert_Lofthouse - 9:26 pm on Apr 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

Unfortunately, I believe that everyone just ran to XHTML without thinking about the consequences. It was the latest thing, all the standards gurus were going on about it, but nobody really took the time out to see how this new markup language worked, and what affect it had on other technologies.

I used to praise up XHTML, but I believe that until it is fully supported (i.e. we have the ability to send it with the correct mime type and prolog), we should use HTML 4.01 strict instead.

Obviously if you are developing a site for an intranet, where you know everyone in your company is using firefox, then feel free to use XHTML with the correct prolog and mime type, but if you're developing a public site then I see no point in using it just yet.