He's not saying they have wonderful design. He's saying that most of the top sites liberally use tables, which is interesting given that they probably have som

He's not saying they have wonderful design. He's saying that most of the top sites liberally use tables, which is interesting given that they probably have some pretty great devs and an infinite budget. I've walked the same road as the author has and currently use tables for layout and CSS for text style, paddings, margins, borders, colors, backgrounds, rollovers...