[Pound6F]

Just so we are clear: Never actually do this.

The point of the post is that the syntax for writing html is getting better (just using 'html' as a doctype is great). But in terms of application, there is none.

If you want to write a web site/service and you want to support more users than just your friends, you have to do things right to support older browsers (and IE) and this means things like including all of the tags that FF/Chrome are automatically adding.

[cjain]

I would like to point out that the % of older browser usage is going down significantly. We are talking < 35% of web population and shrinking by the day ... http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201111-201201