Tom,

On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Thomas Hall wrote:

> What I am hoping to gather from this group are some references I can  
> provide
> as to why tables should be used or limited to tabular data only and not
> relied on for a site's entire layout presentation.

Well, it doesn't get much more authoritative than the html spec...
<http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/tables.html>

It says "The HTML table model allows authors to arrange _data_ ... into  
rows and columns"  I suppose one could argue that everything is data,  
but then there would be no need for any other html elements.

Also there a number of practical arguments as well.
<http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/throwing_tables/>
<http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/css-website- 
layout.shtml>

This topic is marginally off-topic since it is primarily a markup  
issue, so I'm going to stop here before it wanders too far afield.

hth
-- 
Roger Roelofs
"Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction,
        God allows U-turns!"
          ~Allison Gappa Bottke
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