To learn XHTML or not?

V4NT0M

V4NT0M

V4NT0M

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So the internet has been telling me for near 10 years that XHTML is the future and anything new should be coded using it.

As I don't design websites for other people anymore so I don't need to meet any arbitrary standards is there any need to learn XHTML now? I've always figured browsers are going to be using HTML for some time if not forever so I'll learn it if I ever need to.

I'm pretty old-school and still code my websites from a blank notepad, are there any advantages or benefits I'm missing out on?
 
Thanks for the input guys, I guess the main thing that made me think it is hard is when I run normal HTML through the XHTML validator and it comes up with a million errors, but that's a silly way to look at it...

I think I'll give it a go and see how easy it is to recode some of my simpler projects in XHTML see how it works out... I think the major problem is that I'm still a table whore!
 
That test drive program doesn't seem to work correctly for me, if i run it in IE8 mode I get different results than if I loaded it up in IE8 itself.
 
ietester seems ok, thanks for the link, though it seems only useful for seeing if the general layout looks consistent, some css and javascript aren't really fully implemented.

Still a good tool, better than using browsershots.
 
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