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- johnnnnyh0
No moth, you are wrong. There are things which divs can't do that currently tables do easily. Not many things but there are a couple. CSS is great - no doubting that. But it is not without its own limitations. The problem is that it would be great to make a new site and not use tables (and that is what I do) nevertheless it is often 80% pain and 20% compromise in (some) areas where a table would quite frankly, do the job better.
Tables are flawed - I agree, but so is pure CSS, since it cannot produce some basic, and desirable layouts which a table can (very) easily. Much of my time has been spent finding new ways to emulate the table layout - but this is the point - it's not a task that feels worthwhile when there is an easier way already out there.