Conclusion

The arguments against CSS are, as I have said, ignorant and unfounded. CSS offers many benefits over designing with tables, and accessiblity is greatly enhanced - not to mention search engine optimisation. Designing with CSS can be done outside of languages like PHP, so the design can be left to people without programming experience. They do not need to know how the code was generated in order to build a new layout for it.

Standards are everywhere. Without them, interoperable technology would not exist. We wouldn't be able to email anybody with an email address from any email client. We wouldn't be able to perform online transactions. We wouldn't be able to tune any radio into any radio station.

Standards are rewritten every so often to accommodate current usage. The HTML of old is no longer suitable for displaying the documents we want to write in a way that they are accessible by anybody. These new standards bring the web to anybody and everybody who wants to view it.

Why is that a bad thing?