Table-based webpage design versus CSS-based webpage design: resources
Roughly 66% of all webpages on the web today use tables for laying
out elements and positioning them on a webpage. Table-based webpage
design was never the purpose of table: table is for presenting tabular
data. There are many insidious but huge problems with resorting to tables
for webpage layout and webpage design.
Throwing
Tables Out the Window. A very bold and amazing article. The author
takes the microsoft.com webpage, then removes all of the tables and
implements CSS design and reduces the original file size of 62%!
"If multiplied out by an average of 38.7 million page views per day,
that 25 KB savings per page could add up to about 924 GB in bandwidth
savings per day, or 329 terabytes per year."
This amazing article has been translated in 8 other languages.