Xoc - 9:49 pm on Oct 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

Go to [htmlhelp.com ] and validate the home page of the 10 top web properties, listed below. The results are embarassing. Not a single one of these site validated without a glitch. Most do not have a DTD specified. What is so hard about validating that these sites can't do it? Is there some technical reason not to validate? Someone explain it to me.

http://www.aol.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.yahoo.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.msn.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.microsoft.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.lycos.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.ebay.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.disney.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.excite.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.google.com [htmlhelp.com]
http://www.amazon.com [htmlhelp.com]