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So, can adhering to Web standards actually prove to be a wise financial maneuver? MeyerWeb seems to believe that this is something worth further investigation. Besides just looking better, the argument is that by having a site that holds itself up to Web standards is the only way to go if you want to save on bandwidth along with other Internet related expenses.
Yesterday morning, I saw via somebody’s feed (most likely either Matt or Simon) that Rakesh Pai has published a piece called “The Economics of XHTML”, in which he explores and summarizes many points in favor of moving to XHTML. As he says, XHTML and semantic HTML are basically the same thing, so when you read the article you should prepend the words “old-style” to the term HTML and “semantic HTML or” to the term XHTML. Thus, the following paragraph from his article: