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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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549 points thecr0w | 4 comments | 07 Dec 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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stonecharioteer ◴[07 Dec 25 17:54 UTC] No.46183569[source]▶
I'm curious. Did you ask it to use tables and no CSS?

In 1996, We had only css1. Ask it to use tables to do this, perhaps.

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lagniappe ◴[07 Dec 25 17:58 UTC] No.46183603[source]▶
We actually had a myriad of competing specs. CSS proper wasn't released until december 1996.
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thecr0w ◴[07 Dec 25 18:01 UTC] No.46183623[source]▶
Any names for the competing specs? Maybe i could try re-prompting with that direction.
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1. lagniappe ◴[07 Dec 25 18:09 UTC] No.46183673[source]▶
Models are trained with content scraped from the net, for the most part. The availability of content pertaining to those specs is almost nil, and of no SEO value. Ergo, models for the most part will only have a cursory knowledge of a spec that your browser will never be able to parse because that isn't the spec that won.

Nonetheless, here is a link to a list of the specs you asked for: https://www.w3.org/Style/History/Overview.en.html

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2. boie0025 ◴[07 Dec 25 20:20 UTC] No.46184764[source]▶
Thanks for sharing that. I read through a lot of this. Interesting to read those perspectives in the context of today.
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3. lagniappe ◴[07 Dec 25 20:21 UTC] No.46184777[source]▶
Much obliged. Have a good weekend. Your new gray hairs are en route :)
4. mxfh ◴[09 Dec 25 21:27 UTC] No.46210904[source]▶
Almost nil?

Websites that started before 2000 tend to stick around and comparably quite well archived.

What has model training to do with SEO, that's outright detrimental to it for the most part.

This is the spec it can guarantee you that's in every large language model thats actually large.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/

Why even bring up CSS this was before that.

You can just also learn with the knowledge of 1996

Selfhtml exits it pretty easy to limit the scope of authoring language to a given HTML version and target browser. Your LLM should have no problem with german.

https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/Museum

some other docs:

https://rauterberg.employee.id.tue.nl/publications/WWW-Desig...

Just spec the year and target browser and target standard and you will get something better than just asking for visual accuracy.

The OG prompt is simply poor and loose:

"Your job is to recreate the landing page as faithfully as possible, matching the screenshot exactly."