Hopefully now that CSS is in vogue you may see fixed tables used more (as absurd as that may sound and if people remember that it can speed up rendering of large data tables).

The problem in the past seemed to be that any large data table with "table-layout:fixed" applied was inevitably nested in "layout tables" several deep - which minimised the performance gain.

I for one really appreciate that you have taken the trouble to get "table-layout:fixed" working correctly in Safari -- looking forward to using stuff like this more.

...so make that nine :)