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From: Keith Parks
Date: Dec 2, 2009 5:15PM

On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Geof Collis wrote:

> Why are people still using tables for layout?

Even if everyone stopped building pages with layout tables tomorrow,
there would still be a huge number existing sites that, if the content
has proper structural markup, could be reasonably accessible.

Seems to me that a good tool ought to be able to deal with these
legacy sites, that may *never* be updated, in terms of page structure.

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