[JimDabell]

> You'd think that if anyone managed to correctly generate strict XHTML, it'd be those people.

Once more, they were operating in a world designed for lax parsing. Even if their direct choices were for strict parsing, everything surrounding them was lax.

Somebody making the choice to enable strict parsing in a world designed for lax parsing is a fundamentally different scenario than “If XHTML really took off (as in a significant majority of web pages were XHTML)”, where the entire technology stack from top to bottom would be built assuming strict parsing.