Al,
With all due respect, that is not very good logic. So, someone inexperienced enough to make an invalid table layout is going to float right through the process of making a CSS-positioned layout? That's quite a spin, John :-)
This is based on research into the web sites of dozens of the biggest companies, govt depts and no for profits in Australia.
I am talking about the correlation of invalid HTML and table based designs.
N ot one of the table based designs validates. Very few of the others do either, but not a ingle table based on does.
I'm not evangelizing table-based layouts, although for real-world clients they sometimes are the right choice.
I have yet to be convinced that clearly breaking the spirit and letter of a number of web standards, and all the attendant other costs associated with Table based designs is justified by anything other than a designers penchant for that technique.
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