> 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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thecr0w a day ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	sqircles 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought for sure I was going to see an image map when I looked at the source. Pleasant surprise!

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DocTomoe a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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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masswerk a day ago | parent | next [-]

Hum, table cells provide the max-width and images a min-with, heights are absolute (with table cells spilling over, as with CCS "overflow-y: visible"), aligns and maybe HSPACE and VSPACE attributes do the rest. As long as images heights exceed the effective line-height and there's no visible text, this should render pixel perfect on any browser then in use. In this case, there's also an absolute width set for the entire table, adding further constraints. Table layouts can be elastic, with constraints or without, but this one should be pretty stable.

(Fun fact, the most amazing layout foot-guns, then: Effective font sizes and line-heights are subject to platform and configuration (e.g., Win vs Mac); Netscape does paragraph spacing at 1.2em, IE at 1em (if this matters, prefer `<br>` over paragraphs); frames dimensions in Netscape are always calculated as integer percentages of window dimensions, even if you provide absolute dimensions in pixels, while IE does what it says on the tin (a rare example), so they will be the same only by chance and effective rounding errors. And, of course, screen gamma is different on Win and Mac, so your colors will always be messed up – aim for a happy medium.)

	▲	wilsmex 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh good times, the screen gamma issue got me many times back then, as I was the super odd kid on a Mac in the late 90's (father was in education). I'd pull my beautify crafted table-soup site up on a friends PC later and wonder why all the colors were all wacky!

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jeanlucas a day ago | parent | prev [-]

>Like the web was meant to be.

what?

	▲	alternatex 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Presumably written by a person who wasn't a web developer back then or were developing solely for Internet Explorer.
	▲	DocTomoe 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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?