I have the PC trial version of DW 8 and I notice that I don’t get the chance to select Strict XHTML when you create a new page.
You simply get a checkbox to make the document XHTML compliant but the code it creates is for transitional, not strict. Have you noticed this or am I doing something wrong?
I was able to manually edit the source code to match your example so I assume I am good to go but thought I would ask and what better place than here?
Cheers!