Originally Posted by StuartD

I never said you can use CSS for all of table's needs. I still recommend that data be in a table, spreadsheet style. That's what a table is intended for.
I'm talking about design. You should never need a table for the design of a page except to display data output of some kind.

And as for the hacking thing... I have NEVER needed an IE hack to make my CSS work in both IE and Firefox.

Using STRICT in your doctypes eliminates MOST of the inconsistencies and beyond that, just rethinking your CSS a little fixes most everything else.