Nashie - 12:55 pm on May 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

"why do I need to close a TD, OPTION, or LI tag? wasted space!"

Well its not strictly needed, but it does make more sense, particularly if you have nested lists.

I think the idea was to force good coding practise more than anything else.

I use XHTML but thats more to do with the fact that when I was at University, XHTML and CSS was taught in a way that... kind of implied that you couldn't construct non-table based layout sites before XHTML.

I can't offhand think of anything in XHTML that I couldn't do in HTML 4.01.