Table Summary

I'm currently converting my companys primary navigation bar from a table layout to an unordered list.

The table-nav uses the summary tag with keywords for each page and these keywords change dynamically based on the page content. My new CSS design will no longer have these tables and these summary tags will be gone. Our lead developer warned me that the SEO guy is probably going to pitch a fit about these summary tags being removed. So any suggestions on things I can do to replace these tags, or are these summary tags a waste anyways and probably don't affect seo, and if so anyone have a link so I say "there" to the guy.

thanks

The title= attribute will probably work just as well and is supported by both lists elements and links.

Cool, I'll see if I can sell it.

thanks!

Nope I got shot down. We outsource our SEO to another company and when I suggested the use of 'title' attribute on an unordered list on a section of web-standard html I got yelled at. And the SEO guy is insisting that the code me ripped out and replaced with a table. He claims that table summaries are what make the world of google go round. Anyone have any articles laying around that say table summaries are the suck?

I had a experience with a company that whanted the site to be build in div tags no tables, thay said that site with divs css is beter for SEO, Im not so certain about that, but i know that div tags can not replace tables in high graphic design.
And afcourse the opera, firefox, mozila, IE difrently interpreted the layer cod.

I was wondering is div tags realy beter then tables for SEO?

The idea of divs Vs. tables comes down to one deciding factor... Which one will leave you with less actual code on the page. This is really the only concern that there is with this battle.

DIV's and CSS are great for doing a lot of stuff, but they aren't the be-all-and-end-all of design that some people woudl have us think. Tables do still definately have a place in design these days. The trick is knowing when and where to use each one.