What's wrong with HTML and CSS??

W3C says:

Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout document content as this may present problems when rendering to non-visual media. Additionally, when used with graphics, these tables may force users to scroll horizontally to view a table designed on a system with a larger display. To minimize these problems, authors should use style sheets to control layout rather than tables.

But style sheets are not capable of reasonable layout. Not only is the design of CSS layout overly complex and obtuse, but the specification is so poorly designed and written that no two browsers are consistent in their implementation of it - not even two subsequent versions from the same vendor!!

What makes this even more bizzare is that before designing CSS there was a working model: HTML tables. It would have been easy, and sufficient for most purposes, to provide in CSS the layout capabilities already present in tables. This need not have precluded other layout options, but at least there would then have been one reasonably sane and reasonably well understood (i.e. amenable to consistent implementation) means of laying out pages with CSS.

As it is, I will continue using tables for the foreseeable future.