[Marketing] (x)HTML standard for new site?

[Martin Burns]

I seem to be picking up a feeling that desdev are thinking about using 
HTML4.01 for the new site:

> > From: "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com[...]
> > >so, XHTML 1.0 Transitional?  has anyone decided what MIME type
> > >we'll serve it as? CSS 2.1? no tables for layout? no embedded
> > >style? no overuse of classes, spans, or divs?
> > > I agree with everything. As to mime type: keep it simple and use
> > text/html. The other stuff is too complicated for use and useless
> > anyway.
>
> well, if we don't get the MIME, then it isn't really XHTML... it
> won't validate as such... and given that (i think) that MIME type
> causes IE6/win some issues, that's a concern...
>
> of course, HTML itself *isn't* a discarded standard... we *could*
> still do all of the above in HTML *and* serve it as the correct MIME
> type...
>
> as it is, the articles themselves won't validate when you consider
> none of the <img> elements have a self-terminating slash...
>
> or am i being too picky?

Now while I'm not really all *that* bothered, I can see that using 
HTML4.01 (/me hopes to high heaven that this doesn't also mean 
table-based layout) will lose us a lot of credibility externally.

When we last redesigned (1999), we could express a lot of fair 
scepticism, but not now.

Thoughts?

Cheers
Martin
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