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Enforcing the requirement that tables should not be used for layout is not really possible, but I agree that it is good design practice. How about making that part pf the HTML5 spec informative.
Closing since WG decision has been made on the issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10963 ***
mass-moved component to LC1