Some “webdevelopers” are saying that they code their internetsites to be w3c-valid and that they dislike wysiwyg editors. Even if this Blog is for sure not w3c-valid i’m one of those guys. The question, as written in the topic, why valid html? Why should webdevelopers bother? How can it be used and who benefits from it?

Let’s start at the beginning: The w3c (world wide web consortium; w3 = w w w) is a Consortium which sets the standards for various techniques in the internet (world wide web); for example for HTML. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the language nearly every website is coded in. Usually people want to work with Standards and not against those, anyway, here are some links: w3c, HTML at the w3c and XHTML/XHTML2 at the w3c.
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