Originally Posted by Anthony Apparantley CSS designs can be parsed better by browsers?

Depends on the browser. For the web browser, it's more or less the same. For a handheld device or some device for disabled people, tableless layouts will be better...but of course, if you have tabular data you SHOULD USE TABLES. Tables are meant for tabular data, not images.

The most important factor is that search engines parse tableless layouts better. A search engine would parse a table expecting to find tabular data, instead it finds images, that's time wasted.