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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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549 points thecr0w | 3 comments | 07 Dec 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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sqircles ◴[07 Dec 25 20:43 UTC] No.46184964[source]▶
> The Space Jam website is simple: a single HTML page, absolute positioning for every element...

Absolute positioning wasn't available until CSS2 in 1998. This is just a table with crafty use of align, valign, colspan, and rowspan.

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DocTomoe ◴[07 Dec 25 20:58 UTC] No.46185103[source]▶
Which would also render differently on every machine, based on browser settings, screen sizes, and available fonts.

Like the web was meant to be. An interpreted hypertext format, not a pixel-perfect brochure for marketing execs.

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1. jeanlucas ◴[07 Dec 25 21:42 UTC] No.46185461[source]▶
>Like the web was meant to be.

what?

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2. DocTomoe ◴[08 Dec 25 06:05 UTC] No.46188919[source]▶
Do you not remember the good old days when people who focussed on graphics design rather than content put 'Best used with Netscape/IE5.5' on their pages?
3. alternatex ◴[08 Dec 25 09:10 UTC] No.46190084[source]▶
Presumably written by a person who wasn't a web developer back then or were developing solely for Internet Explorer.