> right now I don't think any mainstream tools assume markup is semantic. Depends on what you're talking about; anything that uses microformats does, for examp

> right now I don't think any mainstream tools assume markup is semantic. Depends on what you're talking about; anything that uses microformats does, for example. Tools generally can't assume that tables are semantic, because they've been so heavily abused. That's not going to change though. Perhaps the best solution is a <yes-this-is-really-a-table> element. > tables aren't much moreso than divs. Would you say that a table in a relational database isn't much more semantic than a string of bytes?