Table based layout is a fast way to make designers and front end developers groan loudly. There are a number of reasons for this that have been innumerated in c

Table based layout is a fast way to make designers and front end developers groan loudly. There are a number of reasons for this that have been innumerated in countless blog posts. I think the real question here would be assuming you have no cross-browser issues, what is the real tangible benefit of markup that validates? Unless you're running a site for web professionals your users aren't likely to give a flip about your W3C compliance badge at the bottom of the page and are even less likely to run your pages through a validator.