Mohamed_E - 7:07 pm on Mar 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've found that going from transitional to strict mark-up is the big step, rather than moving from HTML to XHTML ...

Amen.

Like many webmasters I moved gradually from "street HTML" to "almost valid" HTML to validated HTML Transitional to validated HTML Strict to validated xhtml 1.0 Strict.

Each of the steps leading to HTML Strict was painful, as it involved learning new concepts and accepting new ways of doing things. On the other hand, the final transition to xhtml was mechanical, done almost entirely using HTML-Tidy (OK, plus a lot of programming to clean things up), involving basically no new ideas.