I'll tip my hat to the author for writing the first well-formed, non-ranting, description of why one should use Tables over CSS (that I've come across), though

I'll tip my hat to the author for writing the first well-formed, non-ranting, description of why one should use Tables over CSS (that I've come across), though I'm sure with the amount of these people that are coming out of the woodwork I'm sure I'll end up seeing more... I still feel the need to disagree with him though. This kind of mentality is counter-productive to the web moving forward - CSS can be a bit more difficult at points, yes, but 90% of the issues that are generally encountered with it stem from IE's horrific rendering engine. We've finally gotten to a point where IE's market share is declining, and with that CSS based development will only get easier. On one last note, CSS is being adopted in more places than just the web - for instance, there's various projects attempting to integrate CSS into the GTK setup. If CSS was really that bad and unusable, do you think it'd be getting any further adoption at all?