> 1. You believe that it is better to layout pages in tables. Or, you wish to lay things out as in a table, and would like to use CSS to do this, ie: #box

> 1. You believe that it is better to layout pages in tables. Or, you wish to lay things out as in a table, and would like to use CSS to do this, ie: #box { display: table } http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-display http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-display but in practice you must support legacy browsers (IE6/IE7), so you choose to use actual table tags instead.