On: My Current HTML Boilerplate

[progval]

> xhtml was never supported by all major browsers.

Source? https://caniuse.com/xhtml says otherwise

> You couldn't do stuff like <div/> and get away with it.

I just tried on both Firefox and Chromium, they parse it properly.

[jontro → progval]

When xhtml was popular internet explorer was a major blocker for using it properly. I never saw xhtml served with the proper content type at the time.

I don't see a reason to mix html and xhtml today. It will only lead to problems. (I.e using self-closing tags and &amp; mismatches in urls)

If you use <div/> in html the browser will just ignore the end / See https://jsfiddle.net/sw8j9fo2/