Misuse of Tables in generated HTML

[calab]

My company is currently evaluating Richfaces for production use and it is one of our favourite candidates.

Unfortunately we find that some richfaces-components generate code that misuses HTML-tables for layout purposes. IMHO this is kind of "old style" HTML coding and div-tags should be used instead (where possible). Examples are:

panelMenu(Group|Item)
panelBar(Item)
simpleTogglePanel
richTab(Panel)

Are there any plans to "fix" this issue in the near future?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

table design used only in the components where the complex problems appears while trying to have div based layout.

[calab]

Does that mean that richfaces will
a) use layout-tables until the "complex problems" with divs are solved? If so, are there any plans when this will be the case?
b) use layout-tables forever?

I would like to know before I will develop custom components and try to solve those problems myself... ;)

Thanks for your answer anyway!

[ilya_shaikovsky]

If we have table based layout in the component - it means that div based solution has some limitations that we can't solve without loosing functionality or requires hude design solutions - so we have no plans to rewrite components which are already table based...