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- Sighted people aren't the only visitors to a website.
- HTML is meant to describe content, not make it look like something on a browser.
- Separation of content (HTML) and design (CSS) and behavior (Javascript) can make a site easier to update / redesign down the line.
- Keeping HTML, CSS and Javascript tiles separate improves download times by file caching. When I did my first tables to css conversion I reduced the download size from over 120kb to 30-50kb by stripping out the design formatting from the HTML. Can provide URLs of before and after pages to run speed tests on to see.

My addendum;

Also, tables rarely display properly on mobile devices, just like some Web 2.0 sites don't work right on older browsers. However, if you're doing CSS *right*, it should be easily viewable on both.