So, some guy over at Vitamin has a new radical method of designing for the web - Tables! Don't worry, it's not really as bad as it sounds. The general idea is to replace those awful table layouts with semantic markup, and use CSS to make them behave like tables, which is perfectly acceptable. Now, up until recently this has been a bad idea due to the fact that Internet Explorer apparently didn't support the table display modes in CSS. Version 8 of IE will, however, so in the future designing might become an easier task, at least when it comes to multi-column layouts. Now, I'm not entirely sure that a multi-column layout is the best way to go, I actually prefer single-column layouts as well as radical, innovating ones, but the multi-column layout has proven to be successful so far. The question is; was this because it's a good layout - or because it was easy to implement using tables? But I digress... the point is, doing stuff the easy way sometimes supresses creativity, and we have to ask ourselves - is this a good idea, or is it just regular tables all over again?