What the hell is wrong with using single quotes for html attributes?

Because standards are useful only when they're... well... standard :-)

And doing print "<a href='$foo' style='foo:baz' onClick='stuff'>$xxx</a>" is infintely cleaner then doing print "<a href=\\"$foo\\" style=\\"foo:baz\\" onClick=\\"stuff\\">$xxx</a>"..

This is what qq is there for.

qq!<a href="$foo" style="foo:baz" onClick="stuff">$xxx</a>!
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