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Comment by stonecharioteer

3 days ago

I'm curious. Did you ask it to use tables and no CSS?

In 1996, We had only css1. Ask it to use tables to do this, perhaps.

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lagniappe  3 days ago

We actually had a myriad of competing specs. CSS proper wasn't released until december 1996.

  • thecr0w  3 days ago

    Any names for the competing specs? Maybe i could try re-prompting with that direction.

    • lagniappe  3 days ago

      Models are trained with content scraped from the net, for the most part. The availability of content pertaining to those specs is almost nil, and of no SEO value. Ergo, models for the most part will only have a cursory knowledge of a spec that your browser will never be able to parse because that isn't the spec that won.

      Nonetheless, here is a link to a list of the specs you asked for: https://www.w3.org/Style/History/Overview.en.html

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    • wanderingstan  3 days ago

      There were specs competing for adoption, but only tables (the old way) and CSS were actually adopted by browsers. So no point trying to use some other positioning technique.

thecr0w  3 days ago

Yes yes great question!

I tried your suggestion and also tried giving it various more general versions of the limitations presented by earlier generations.

Claude's instinct initially was actually to limit itself to less modern web standards.

Unfortunately, nothing got those planets to be in the right place.