I came across the ebook “Web Standards” by Leslie Sikos today, and it looked like a very informative book to read until I noticed it was published in 2011.
Would I still learn useful stuff from it, or is it too out-of-date (and maybe misleading because of it). Should I maybe look for something more recent to brush up on web standards with?
If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear. I’m looking for a book, not the official web standards websites
I don’t really feel a lot has changed in web standards over recent years (except that coding standards have fallen, not least because of the introduction of JS-heavy frameworks).
Another one to consider is Zeldman’s flagship book on the subject.
For whatever reason I like the strictness of XHTML, and HTML5 feels “dirty” to me.
(I’m not a very good at being a pragmatist)
If you want “current” then the W3C is the place to go.
If you want something a bit easier to digest, them IMHO a well written 2011 book should be more than adequate.
It’s as clean or as dirty as you make it. 
There is also XHTML5, if that’s what sinks floats your boat.
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