Working at a contracted clients office, a web producer/developer said, and I quote...
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>"...XHTML pages render slower than regular HTML...forms and the form cursor react slower in XHTML marked up pages..."<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>Wow, I personally have yet to notice a "slow down" of how my browser reacts to XHTML Doctypes and markup. Honestly, I haven't done a plain 'ol HTML page in over 3 years <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle> so I don't remember if they loaded/ran faster.

I can't wait to hear comments of the community, weather debunking or assiting validation of this myth.<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
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Sound more like an uneducated opinion to me Chris <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> I'm assuming he didn't provide any evidence to support his opinion either?

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Lee Diggins - <i>DMXzone Manager</i>
<font size="1">[ Studio MX/MX2004 | ASP -> VBScript/PerlScript/JavaScript | SQL | CSS ]</font>

is he in management by any chance?

they usually chat s**t <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Dave Thomas
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Oh totally, but he also develops for the company, Sr. Producer level. I plan on talking with him this week coming, so I will definitely poke at him for any evidence he can cough up.

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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
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Did you look at the link I posted in Links / Accessibility / Cool Sites
The case for avoiding XHTML(to be approved ...)
www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=6&NewsId=8121

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<b>Simon Martin</b> - <i>DMXzone Manager</i>
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Did you look at the link I posted in Links / Accessibility / Cool Sites
The case for avoiding XHTML(to be approved ...) www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=6&NewsId=8121<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Yes, thank you... hope you don't mind, I cleaned it up usin an ordered-list. <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

That's fine - I must have been having a dizzy fit when I put it together... what was I thinking... no list!?!

Now it just needs approval and its in business

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<b>Simon Martin</b> - <i>DMXzone Manager</i>
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Your argument bypasses the actual point of using xhtml <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

The argument FOR switching to XHTML has less to do WITH XHTML and MORE to do with not supporting specific browsers, but standards.

No one knows what will happen tomorrow. IE 7 may have full support for xhtml. IE 8 may be released three days after 7. Firefox may gain 90% market share. Opera may. Macs may take off & the whole world might be browsing on Safari.

But, regardless of what MAY happen, we know we have standards & people working on standards right now. How much work is it, really, to use xhtml?

To self-close tags... to be case sensitive... to use CSS for layout--the first two are easy & the last has cut my development time in half. Literally! In half!