I must have a slow "brain connection", because something about the above just 
hit me: how fast a page renders has nothing to do with the speed of your 
internet connection, but rather the speed of your computer. You would 
*download* the files faster or slower depending on your connection, but they 
only start rendering once they actually reach your computer, of course -- and, 
hence, it's the speed of your computer that would be the relevant factor.

In that regard, I still don't know how important a factor it is for CSS pages 
to render 1/3 faster than table layouts, even on a slow(er) computer -- it 
would have to be an extremely, extremely complex page, I would think, for it to 
be any difference greater than negligible.

Ron :) 

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It's ~both~ how quickly your computer can process the page and how quickly your 
computer can download the page; however, it's mostly how quickly you can 
download a page because the processing load of a single web page, no matter how 
complex, is very, very small. Think of how quickly an HTML page displays when 
you view it locally versus online. 
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