Well you know, I was only trying to explain in a way to people who know hardly nothing about html/xhtml coding in the easiest way I could, not going over everything they would not understand.

It's just that you have seen the early adopters of XHTML immediately reject the inline styles and assumed, wrongly, that HTML could not do that.

And i did not assume anything like that, I know that HTML can also do that, but I was letting this person know from my experience that I think it is easier to use xhtml with an external stylesheet than have any type of inline styles on a html page, even though html can also reject the inline styles.