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- kelpie0
holy fucking moly.
keeping it brief; I completely and utterly agree with Moth. In my work we do a lot of big e com sites, 90% html cms stuff for all kinds of clients and haven't used tables in years.
They're not for layout, the benefits of not using them are massive, so if you have to think your way around a design differently and not use conventions you have previously in your layouts, then you have to do that. Its evolution of the craft. But what the hell; opinions are like arseholes...
To the other guy (YAY paul, I think); yeah, I've been there a bunch of times - I wasn't really slagging off the Beeb as such, just railing against the very thing you described. The use of this example to kind of give people a comfort zone to roll things back to it being ok to use tables in layouts was the source of teh heat in my response.
Now play nice kids, I'm going back to work ;D