> who didn't support the most popular layout method at the time, tables, in their new styling language CSS. That's quite a misunderstanding of the past. Your p

> who didn't support the most popular layout method at the time, tables, in their new styling language CSS. That's quite a misunderstanding of the past. Your proposition is only technically correct: CSS1 (Dec 1996) did not have table display properties, but they were added in CSS2 (Mar 1998). They were available early enough to matter. The reason why many Web authors did not design with these properties is not the fault of the W3C, but rather because of the typical Microsoft sabotage. In the early 2000s, I personally did not give a shit about IE - my standard compliant CSS rendered fine in other popular browsers.