The issue of strictly separating presentation and content strikes me as roughly analogous to separating header files from implementation files in C++. It makes sense, but it can also be a pain. Witness Java and C# where classes are defined in a single source file. The authors of the newer languages noticed something that was causing programmers headaches and they got rid of it. That seems to be the gist of this discussion. One side is saying CSS is too difficult, the other side is saying one must become a CSS master.

对于简单的布局问题，为什么不改变表示必须完全独立的规则呢?一个新的标签(或者一些div标签的扩展)可以让我们直接在HTML中控制显示?毕竟，我们不是已经将表示泄露到HTML中了吗?看看h1, h2, h6。我们都知道这些控制表示。

阅读代码(HTML就是代码)的能力非常重要。专家们往往忽略了使编程环境尽可能为大众所接受的重要性。认为只有专业程序员才重要是非常短视的。

如果你在这方面支持表格角度，找一个有表格的网站，然后给自己买一个屏幕阅读器——关掉屏幕阅读器，关掉你的显示器。

然后尝试一个不错的语义正确的div布局网站。

你会发现其中的不同。

如果表格中的数据是表格而不是为了布局页面，那么表格并不是邪恶的。

In the past, screen readers and other accessibility software had a difficult time handling tables in an efficient fashion. To some extent, this became handled in screen readers by the reader switching between a "table" mode and a "layout" mode based on what it saw inside the table. This was often wrong, and so the users had to manually switch the mode when navigating through tables. In any case, the large, often highly nested tables were, and to a large extent, are still very difficult to navigate through using a screen reader.

The same is true when divs or other block-level elements are used to recreate tables and are highly nested. The purpose of divs is to be used as a fomating and layout element, and as such, are intended used to hold similar information, and lay it out on the screen for visual users. When a screen reader encounters a page, it often ignores any layout information, both CSS based, as well as html attribute based(This isn't true for all screen readers, but for the most popular ones, like JAWS, Windows Eyes, and Orca for Linux it is).

为此，表格式数据，也就是逻辑上有意义的在二维或多维维度中排序的数据，具有某种标题，最好放在表中，并使用div来管理页面上内容的布局。(另一种思考“表格数据”的方式是尝试以图表形式绘制它……如果你不能，它可能不是最好的表示在一个表中)

Finally, with a table-based layout, in order to achieve a fine-grained control of the position of elements on the page, highly nested tables are often used. This has two effects: 1.) Increased code size for each page - Since navigation and common structure is often done with the tables, the same code is sent over the network for each request, whereas a div/css based layout pulls the css file over once, and then uses less wordy divs. 2.) Highly nested tables take much longer for the client's browser to render, leading to slightly slower load times.

在这两种情况下，“最后一英里”带宽的增加，以及更快的个人电脑缓解了这些因素，但它们仍然是许多网站存在的问题。

With all of this in mind, as others have said, tables are easier, because they are more grid-oriented, allowing for less thought. If the site in question is not expected to be around long, or will not be maintained, it might make sense to do what is easiest, because it might be the most cost effective. However, if the anticipated userbase might include a substantial portion of handicapped individuals, or if the site will be maintained by others for a long time, spending the time up front to do things in a concise, accessible way may payoff more in the end.

下面是我的程序员在一个类似的帖子中给出的答案

语义101

首先看一下这段代码，想想哪里出了问题……

class car {
    int wheels = 4;
    string engine;
}

car mybike = new car();
mybike.wheels = 2;
mybike.engine = null;

当然，问题在于自行车不是汽车。car类对于bike实例是不合适的类。代码没有错误，但是语义不正确。这对程序员的形象很不利。

语义102

现在将此应用于文档标记。如果您的文档需要显示表格数据，那么适当的标记将是<table>。但是，如果将导航放在表中，则滥用了<table>元素的预期用途。在第二种情况下，您没有表示表格数据—您(mis)使用<table>元素来实现表示目标。

结论

游客会注意到吗?不。你的老板在乎吗?也许吧。作为程序员，我们有时会偷工减料吗?当然。但是我们应该吗?不。如果使用语义标记，谁会受益?你，还有你的职业声誉。现在去做正确的事吧。

当然，这篇文章有点小题大做，争论似乎很简单，很容易反驳。

网页是Web开发人员的领域，如果他们说div和CSS比表格更好，那对我来说已经足够好了。

如果布局是由服务器应用程序生成的表实现的，那么新的布局意味着对应用程序的更改，应用程序的重新构建和重新部署，而不仅仅是对css文件的更改。

另外,可访问性。用于布局的表格会使网站无法访问，所以不要使用它们。这是显而易见的，更不用说违法了。

对于为了简单或临时的东西而拼凑在一起的HTML，表很有用。如果你正在构建一个大型网站，你应该使用div和CSS，因为随着时间的推移，随着网站的变化，它将更容易维护。