CSS2 positioning will provide better support for absolute position of boxes on page and there is already some floating properties in CSS1, but we're still far from the implicit-rescaling and the simple layout model provided by table rows and columns. More comments there.
More text can follow or precede.
More text can follow or precede. Provide alternative text for all applets. I'd make this one a required. Provide semantic tagging of table and cell data. Al has some that he circulated in Austin.