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sqircleslast Sunday at 8:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

> 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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thecr0wlast Sunday at 11:32 PM

Thanks, my friend. I added a strike through of the error, a correction, and credited you.

I'm keeping it in for now because have made some good jokes about the mistake in the comments and I want to keep that context.

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DocTomoelast Sunday at 8:58 PM

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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