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Originally Posted by RelaX
Text-to-speach browsers, such as those used by the blind or poor sighted users render tables horribly.
I had to do a course for work where we had to browse as a blind person browsed... you have no idea how frustrating pages with tables can get if you have never viewed a page that way.
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I have never been in that postion, so I will have to trust your word on it. Not everything is perfect and I'm sure it has it's problems with XHTML as well.
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Google (and most search engines) index pages with less table (and style) clutter higher, right?
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Don't know, I haven't done anything special and my sites are found in search engines with keywords that my sites are related to. Maybe I'm just lucky (no sarcasam, seriously)?
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Tables are a bitch for your browser to render, therefor take a long time to load.
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Never noticed a difference. Perhaps if I had a nanosecond stopwatch I could tell.
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Tables scale horribly... and using tables in any other media or special way (PDA? Print version?) screws up everything
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You got me there, but I'd say more than 95% of your viewers will be in a standard browser.
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Those are cold hard facts. Google it if you like.
Don't give up on something because you can't do it cross-browser with CSS if you can use a table, but I would advise to keep tables only as a last option.
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I didn't make it clear that I DO use CSS for styling, but I use tables because when you tell it a certain width or to vertically align center with unknown heights, it works.