What's better for a forum? Tables or No Tables?

I am developing a site, and I am paying someone to code the template for the forum and site itself. I have never used tables in my web design, except with forums, because I always thought that tables were for tabular data, which applies to a forum.

But, my question is... What will be faster for the site, tables or divs?

I would much rather code it with divs, but I am concerned that it will slow it down, mainly because of all the repeating data...

So, please post all of your ideas and comments!

 

I'd prefer without tables,i f your coder can make a template w/o tables;it will be some feat.

 

I am pretty sure without tables saves bandwidth.

 

Thanks for the input. I'm still trying to figure out if it's worth it or not...

Any more ideas?

 

Hi

Below is are some reasons why tables shouldnt be used

• # Looks more professional (liquid layout etc)
• # No Spacing images required
• # Decreases the filesize
• More accessible for screen reading software

I made a post on '10 reasons why css is good' you can see it here

http://csschat.com/showthread.php?p=359#post359

p.s I would post them all here, but i would prefer to avoid dup content filter.

 

I completely agree. Thanks.

Like I said, I never have used tables in my past sites, so I decided that I want to code this forum with pure css. Sounds sexy, eh?

LOL, thanks.