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All through the Internet and the Internet Industry, there is a battle going on between code, browsers and Web Designers.  At the center of this battle is the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).  This post is to help you understand what this conflict is about and why standardised code is important.

The Internet is a way for individuals and businesses to have the ability to show off, share, promote and sell various products and services to a global audience, however, with the astronomical increase or individuals and businesses getting on the Internet, it is getting harder and harder to stand out from the crowd and be noticed.

This fact has a knock on effect on Web Designers, freelance and companies alike, to create that shiny, slick, standout from the crowd website each and every time.  One of the main factors, one of the main reasons for this obstacle, is lack of support for standards compliant code within browsers.  The W3C is an organisation who’s propose it is to create and develop a set of standard code, that it compatible in every browser, to allow for the full potential of a website and help Web Designers take full advantage of this and build bigger, better and more complex interactive websites.

However, even with the W3C working as hard as they can to ensure the creation of generating cross-compatible code to make this happen, browsers are a major factor.  The newer browsers, such as Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome are trying to ensure they they can and will accept code generated from the W3C, but Internet Explorer is the major problem.

IE6 is the most widely used Internet browser around the world and also the oldest, due to the fact that it is the default browser on most computers sold to individuals and businesses, and with the fact that it is so old, new code generated is not fully compatible and therefore makes it very difficult to create bigger and better websites because all Web Designers need to take into account this fact.

Yes, there has been a gradual shift from IE6 to IE7 and 8, Firefox and other compliant browsers, enabling more and more people to embrace the future; rounded corners, multiple backgrounds, drop shadows etc, and making it easier for Web Designers to give individuals and businesses a better website, but its just not fast enough.

What is standards compliant W3C code and why is it so important, it is so important to help make things better, faster, quicker and also with the use of W3C standards, websites are available for any and all computers, handheld devices and browsers.

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