My major complaint with a table based layout isn't a semantic one, it is a pragmatic one.

Put a colspan or rowspan in your html and you've coupled your design/layout to your markup. Still though, it is often easier to make this compromise.

The hope here is that we ultimately get the best of all worlds. Easy grid layouts AND markup/presendation decoupling AND strong semantics.

jQuery's John Ressig may speed up the day that comes: http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/tree/master http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/10/22/javascript-will...