swa66 - 11:51 pm on Nov 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

If you're serving your pages as type text/html, then you should be using an HTML DOCTYPE, not XHTML. And if you want to serve XHTML, you should be serving it as type application/xhtml+xml, which will not work for IE users. It's plain to see, 99.9% of the time you should be using an HTML DOCTYPE.

And who are YOU to tell ME what standard to follow, I'm not telling you what to do, so stop telling me (and others while at it) what to do.

FWIW: the documents you quote/point to presume that people will not recheck their documents when they switch from text/html to application/xhtml+xml, and presume they do not check them even when served as text/html.
Where is the proof supporting the statement that they do not check their pages and will not do so when switching?

Both approaches work just fine, use what works for you.
Live and let live.