Agreed, but you forgot a 4th sentence to summarize: "CSS is floating DIV tags, that's it." The author ought to take the time to discover why tables are not us

Agreed, but you forgot a 4th sentence to summarize: "CSS is floating DIV tags, that's it." The author ought to take the time to discover why tables are not used for anything but data display by the so-called "purists". CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet not for some raging group of evangelists pushing the "right" way to do something. The movement that utilizes this tool is about implementing standards, following rules, and building a more semantic web. DIV is not semantic. Regardless of if you are a designer or developer, first understand XHTML/HTML... certainly before you write about it. Beyond that, why let the big guys be your standard. iGoogle is no modern marvel of web design or development. I'm guessing the same guy who built the backend of Google finance was tasked with the front; logically he/she would approach that in the fastest way they know. Also note that tables are intended for data. What's finance? Data. They'd better be using tables... just not for layout.