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Why should I code to industry standards?

Why Comply? The Benefits of Coding to Industry Standard

The World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/) develops protocols and guidelines that ensure the web is accessible from all technology types including browsers, mobile devices and multiple others. Their website is full of guidelines and validation tools. The primary reason to code your web pages to current HTML standards is to ensure your code is understood by the widest range of user agents (i.e. search engine spiders) and displayed correctly by web browsers.

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