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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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549 points thecr0w | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wilsmex ◴[07 Dec 25 23:02 UTC] No.46186253[source]▶
Well this was interesting. As someone who was actually building similar website in the late 90's I threw this into the Opus 4.5. Note the original author is wrong about the original site however:

"The Space Jam website is simple: a single HTML page, absolute positioning for every element, and a tiling starfield GIF background.".

This is not true, the site is built using tables, not positioning at all, CSS wasn't a thing back then...

Here was its one-shot attempt at building the same type of layout (table based) with a screenshot and assets as input: https://i.imgur.com/fhdOLwP.png

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manbash ◴[07 Dec 25 23:16 UTC] No.46186378[source]▶
Ah, those days, where you would slice your designs and export them to tables.
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reconnecting ◴[08 Dec 25 06:56 UTC] No.46189236[source]▶
Why not! We did this in 2024 for our website (1) to have zero CSS.

Still works, only Claude can not understand what those tables means.

1. https://www.tirreno.com

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1. lewiscollard ◴[08 Dec 25 07:13 UTC] No.46189323[source]▶
That's a fun trick, but please consider adding ARIA roles (e.g. role="presentation" to <table>, role="heading" aria-level="[number]" to the <font> elements used for headings) to make your site understandable by screen readers.