There was a related thread on
css and div with a link to
An Interview with Mike Davidson of ESPN. Although Mike was all happy about his company embracing the new Standards, ESPN only converted their home page to remove "most" tables. He even laments the problems of horizontal spacing. Their solution is to use exactly sized divs, which probably takes an army the size of their Graphics Department to work out correctly. They still get the benefit of faster download speeds on their home page, but it doesn't save any on design resources, as far as I can tell.
The Tigris Style Project makes a nice compromise: using tables where they have a real use, but really minimizing graphic elements, replacing them with css effects. They have three example pages:
- HTML usage sampler (simple HTML only)
- Sampler with base (Tigris and print) stylesheets applied
- Sampler with Tigris and instance-specific extensions (inst.css)
