Should you Use CSS-P (Table-Less Layouts) on Your Web Site?

Unless you anticipate the main traffic to your site will be impressed with a pure CSS-P site (if for example, you are selling an item that impresses upon people to buy based on how your site is designed), I would not recommend using complete and exact CSS positioning. Many of today's browsers are just not up to speed with CSS-P. I admit that CSS-P looks neat and crisp but is likely not the best choice for the majority of diversified web sites online.

Why? I guess the best way to illustrate this is to send you to some of the top dogs in the industry. Look at their source code. All of them use external or internal CSS with *HTML tables*. They do not use pure CSS-P.

These sites are listed as some of the top 50 visited sites on the net (as of today) and receive a diversified group of visitors - not just large corporations, web designers, etc.

mapquest.com
infospace.com
amazon.com
yahoo.com
ebay.com
microsoft.com
cnn.com
weather.com
match.com
nytimes.com
webshots.com
pogo.com
about.com
dell.com
tripod.com
real.com
expedia.com
iwon.com

I'd also suggest running these sites through *very old* browsers (NS4 and below, MIE 5 and below, etc.) and see how well they display. You might try running them through the validators at W3C too. I think you might just be surprised at the results.