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- gavinnosler0
I think you know that the same browser on a different platform don't always render things the same, so is what you're saying that with XHTML and CSS, a carefully developed website will look and function the same on both platforms? This is true if you're only considering browsers that support standards pretty well. Wired.com did an excellent job of cross-browser, cross-platform XHTML, however they sacrificed aesthetics for a few users, which I think is perfectly fine for a news site.
If you code in XHTML and lay out your site with CSS, you're giving up aesthetics for about 5 percent of your viewers, and people seem fine with this. However, with an HTML site, if don't even look at your website on a Mac and cut Mac development costs, there's a chance you're giving up minor aesthetic defects for 1-4% of your viewers (and saving money), but people aren't fine with this.
I guess that doesn't have anything to do with what you were saying, but I think it's an interesting observation.