validator error?

I tried to look at one of my division's web pages 
(http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/programs.html) using Mozilla, but it did 
not look right.  I thought standards compliance might be considered more 
important than accomodating a raving open source fanatic, so I ran the 
HTML validator on the page.  I was required to select the version of 
HTML to validate against, since it was not specified in the page.  I 
tried a number of HTML versions, with ISO-885901 encoding, and was 
surprised by the results.  The first three results made sense, assuming 
that the document used new features that were not present in the earlier 
versions of HTML.  However, it seems odd that there are fewer errors 
reported for "HTML 4.01 Strict" than for "HTML 4.01 Transitional."  In 
any case, it looks like enough errors for my purpose.

Doctype                   Errors
HTML 2.0                  208
HTML 3.2                  165
HTML 4.01 Transitional    162
HTML 4.01 Strict          131

Received on Wednesday, 12 February 2003 16:07:38 UTC