In my last mail to the list I asked the spec people to comment. Ian Hickson (AKA Hixie) of Mozilla did. Hixie is one of the specifications group and standards QA for Netscape. He’s also an implementor and is really one of the browser big guns right now. However, he said nothing more than that CSS has tables, a cop out!

Tables are good for some things, but in complicated layouts they get nasty. Now we have CSS, but we have the same situation. It’s good, but decent layouts are too complicated to build. A rock! A hard place! Which way to turn? In the last year I’ve solved most problems by using both systems, which is silly and rapidly going out of date.