I agree we have to make compromises because HTML has huge shortcomings. My point, and the point of a lot of people advocating semantic markup, is that if you ha

I agree we have to make compromises because HTML has huge shortcomings. My point, and the point of a lot of people advocating semantic markup, is that if you have to resort to hacks, prefer lots of uly generic containers like divs and spans to misusing things that have better defined semantics that are actually of use to people, like tables. I can't think of anything you can do with tables that you can't do with an ugly mess of divs and a little compromise in cross-browser consistency.