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Obsolete doctype. Expected “<!DOCTYPE html>”.

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"... <img src="/content/dam/authorize/images/logos-icons/magento.png"/> ..." Line: 688 Column: 25 - 88
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The first occurrence of ID “myvideo” was here.

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"...eft"> <a class="blue-btn-with-arrow" href="#" data-video-src="https&#x3a;&#x2f;&#x2f;www.youtube.com&#x2f;embed&#x2f;R0UsSRCcnBk&#x3f;rel&#x3d;0&amp;autoplay&#x3d;1&amp;showinfo&#x3d;0&amp;rel&#x3d;0&amp;autoplay&#x3d;1&amp;showinfo&#x3d;0" id="myvideo" data-video-width="960" data-video-height="540">WATCH ..."

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"...section"> <section class="row section-container pattern-white-bg"> ..." Line: 755 Column: 9 - 36
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