For me, using strict XHTML and stylesheets helps when writing programs to parse the output of a page. While parsing, it's easy to ignore one big <style> tag. It's harder to ignore a bunch of <font> tags littered throughout the document. Other XHTML additions, like forcing a well-formed tag layout, also help here.

Further, adhering to the standards covers you. If I create XHTML-strict/CSS that passes the validator, and the standards quite explicitly say how the given code should render, then any other rendering is a browser bug, and not my fault.

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

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