tableless css?
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it just depends on the data needing to be rendered. if it is tabular in nature - ie spreadsheet style - then tables are fine.
the concept is that tables are NOT used for layout and design...
a grouping of thumbnails could be construed as tabular in nature, so it would be find to use xhtml tables.
remember, though, within xhtml a lot of the non-valid attributes have been removed. xhtml is strict in it's definition. tables don't offer some of the attributes in xhtml they do in html.
in xhtml/css layouts a table is just that, a table of data. it doesn't hold color information, it doesn't hold layout and positioning information, it doesn't hold spacer gifs or anything like that...it is essentially a spreadsheet for browser rendering.
the css layer handles all visual rules.
this conforms with the correct way of developing sites...seperating content, style, scripting and markup (or as zeldman's book says - structure, presentation and behavior).
:)