And when tables take longer than 3 minutes, just get one big graphic and splice it into several pieces. - Tony Ruscoe

What always kills me is when I'm discussing a CSS design person, and they say something like "of course, we'll float:left that, give it width:150px, then we'll give this thing a giant left margin, put some clear:both at the bottom to fix some bug or other, etc., etc.". I say "This is a completely dynamic app. Just throw it in a table, and it will work fine." They say "That wouldn't be semantic!", and I say "there *is* no semantic content, it's dynamic". They say "but tables render slower", and I say "Not true. You read that about progressive rendering of downloaded content." They say "Well I'm doing it this way". A few months later, the team says "The layout keeps breaking, and it gets slow in weird ways", to which I respond "You shoulda just thrown the damned thing in a table". - Joel Webber