Front End developer and graphic designer (xHTML/CSS/Design)
HTML5 makes me cry inside, part of me died when HTML5 gained browser support. To me, HTML5 is all about GIT'R'DONE; it's an evolution, an odd growth on the body of HTML4, rather than setting a newer, better foundation. :(
The only plausible alternative that anyone ever set forward is complete stagnation.... I’m hard pressed to call that preferable, especially if we’re talking about “foundations”. Be sure to notice that browsers still haven’t finished implementing HTML 4 and CSS 2, more than a decade after their specification. Also notice that when you say you write "XHTML", your code is almost certainly not being treated as XML by browsers.
Did you ever actually try running a site using proper XHTML? I ran my blog like that (serving the correct content type to non-IE browsers) for a few years and found it to be a ton of hassle for absolutely no benefit.
