SuzyUK - 6:18 pm on Feb 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

but that wouldn't really be the job for CSS at all would it ergo, CSS is a mechanism for adding a layer of presentation suggestion to a document of content.

If the reason for slicing/dicing images in the content is page render speed for high res images - it's not for divs (and ultimately CSS positioning) to control the layout of that imho. If that's what someone thinking of using it for then why not just continue to use a table for that bit? You could argue that an image is data and is sliced into smaller chunks for no other reason than you want that data/table to render quicker. I'm also thinking of how the page would read with CSS turned off, a image sliced into a table would still show the full picture whereas positioned divs wouldn't.. or am I not getting what you're saying?