Pro's and Con's - CSS Layouts

Originally Posted by Ethan

If tables arent in favor of standards, why are they still more browser compatible than divs in most cases?

And for the record, IE was the first browser. It was the release of all the secondary browsers that began the standards war, thinking that the browser that started it all should conform to them, when (if you put yourself in the shoes of being the one who was the first), isnt exactly reasonable. When it comes down to it, every browser has some kind of incompatibility with standards, even the new Opera 9.5, all because its how they get more members to use some certain browser.