@mckinley Regarding your move to XHTML 1.1:

[…] I can regenerate the entire page with an XSLT stylesheet. It will be like a static site generator, but worse.

Hahaha, exactly what I was thinking. :-D

Looking at the changes between HTML 3.2 and 4.0, apart from the XML properties, you could even have used HTML 3 instead of 4. Maybe even 2. I could not be bothered to look up what 3 added, though.

I chose HTML 5 for my stuff just because I can remember the doctype and meta tag to specify the encoding. The charset is of course also included in the HTTP headers, I just keep it in the HTML so that I easily cover the extremely rare use case of saving something to disk.