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The whole xhtml issue is an interesting one. One of the sites that Mark Pilgrim linked to ( http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml ) claims that sending xhtml as text/html put the receiving browser in "tag soup" or "quirks" mode. And if you send it as application/xhtml+xml, as you're supposed to, many browsers (IE!!!) won't parse it! This was a bit of a surprise to me... I haven't had much trouble with xhtml 1.0 rendering correctly except for the fact that it can be pain to get to do what you want it to do.

In light of reading that whole document, I changed my 409 index.html page to HTML 4.01. It still looks the same, thankfully.

The last article, "Better Living though XHTML:, summarized alot of useful information to me. I really appreciate the link though to the New York Public Library. The site is very resourceful and simplified my process of learning how to apply CSS and XHTML.

Holy crap am I glad we're living in modern times. I would hate to learn how to make layouts and scripts for two differing browsers AND support the old v4 browsers. I remember trying to look at DHTML when it first came out and reading up on why it doesn't work in both browsers the same way. It confused me to tears. That's metaphorically speaking. It was a little tough separating structured content and layout. I used to be pretty good at all those harsh HTML layout hacks, but I'm glad I'm past that now. It's so much easier now.