alt Hacker NewsAh, those days, where you would slice your designs and export them to tables.
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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.
I learned recently that this is still how a lot of email html get generated.
It was relatively OK to deal with when the pages were created by coders themselves.
But then DreamWeaver came out, where you basically drew the entire page in 2D and it spat out some HTML tables that stitched it all back together again, and the freedom it gave our artists in drawing in 2D and not worrying about the output meant they went completely overboard with it and you'd get lots of tiny little slices everywhere.
Definitely glad those days are well behind us now!
I yearn for those days. CSS was a mistake. Tables and DHTML is all one needs.
Gosh, there was a website, where you submit a PSD + payment, and they spit out a sliced design. Initially tables, later, CSS. Life saver.
And use a single px invisible gif to move things around.
But was Space Jam using multiple images or just one large image with and image map for links?
Oh man, Photoshop still has the slice feature and it makes the most horrendous table-based layout possible. It's beautiful.
I remember building really complex layouts w nested tables, and learning the hard way that going beyond 6 levels of nesting caused serious rendering performance problems in Netscape.