[haberman]

Good to know -- though in that case, it seems inappropriate that web standards advocates were demanding everyone abandon table-based layouts when CSS did not actually support layout yet.

[bandushrew]

it was fairly inappropriate, and for the most part pragmatic web designers ignored it until it become realistic.

OTOH, it was the early adopters that were driving it, and I dont really have a problem with that. That is what early adopters do.