Struggling with internet standards these days. Supposedly, xhtml is the future but now I see the WhatWG working on more pragmatic html5 features (like the canvas tag) and not worrying so much about the intellectual idealism that is rampant in xml land.
More to the point, I see the browsers doing a better job on html 5 features than on xhtml features (like FireFox 1.5 and Safari 1.4 both supporting working canvas tags).
Interested in thoughts and arguments for html (pragmatic) vs xhtml (idealistic) as direction for standardization for certain large web based company. The internal standard has been to shoot for xhtml, but we are far from making this. Furthermore, producing valid xhtml and putting a valid xhtml doctype on it results in radically different presentation in IE 6. So regardless, we rely on quirks mode and force it by leaving doctype tags off of our pages.
So what is your take?