I remember when I switched away from tables, it was due to a performance issue(back in 2008). I could have the div based layout render about 700ms faster. I nev

I remember when I switched away from tables, it was due to a performance issue(back in 2008). I could have the div based layout render about 700ms faster. I never went back to full table layout, but I never ditched tables for layout purposes entirely. Of course this is anecdotal, but I wonder wether it'd be just easier for browsers to just improve table performance.