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https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
by snitzr 11mo ago
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
- devin 11mo agoIf this is true to the original, I am surprised to see this was table-oriented layout and not a bitmap image with clickable x,y coordinates.
- hosh 11mo agoTable-oriented layouts was a thing back then too.
- 123sereusername 11mo ago[dead]
- zahlman 11mo agoIt was common to make tables and use them to assemble a bitmap, where each cell had zero border/margin/padding and an exact size, and contained a "slice" of the image. Web authoring tools (and Photoshop) even had explicit support for generating this sort of thing, as I recall. This was I guess simpler to automate than defining clickable regions of a single image, and it allowed for the individual pieces of the image to be requested in parallel on slow connections (adding another dimension of progressive loading).
- hayleox 11mo agoAh, nothing like trying to save the logo from such a website, then discovering the image you saved is partially cut-off and includes the navbar behind it instead having a transparent background.
- devin 11mo agoYeah, I remember this. Macromedia Fireworks had a slice tool that I used quite a bit. You'd basically make an image which was your website, and then do all the layout with zero border tables. But for me, this was what I was doing circa 2004 before CSS was dominant. Earlier software from the '96 era like Frontpage I think would use bitmaps whole cloth, but maybe I'm misremembering.
- ranger_danger 11mo agoLooking at the code, it has definitely been modified from the original... there is now CSS as well as a google ad tracker... but visually it's probably almost exactly the same.