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Subject: Re: Experimental Tablebase webserver online -- Can't Access

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 13:05:11 03/20/01

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On March 20, 2001 at 14:44:44, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On March 20, 2001 at 10:42:39, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>On March 19, 2001 at 16:35:24, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>On March 19, 2001 at 15:55:01, Lex Loep wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 19, 2001 at 15:37:56, Steve Schooler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>Check it out at:  http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/play.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>>All 3,4 and 5 piece tablebases online. Can be interrogated with
>>>>>>a FEN string.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Lex
>>>>>
>>>>>Using Netscape 4.05 (if relevant).  Submission attempt sends me to
>>>>>
>>>>>http://gatekeeper.lokasoft.com/tbweb/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You may try this one:
>>>>
>>>>http://gatekeeper.lokasoft.com/tbweb/default.asp
>>>>
>>>>Netscape should be ok as the output is plain html, but I have
>>>>not tested it.
>>>>
>>>>Lex
>>>
>>>Even when I hit the submit button without changing the predefined FEN string,
>>>it just answers with the error page below (Netscape 4.74).
>>>May be the  action=""  is not so portable across browsers.
>>
>>
>>Thanks,  I have added the action="default.asp". Hopefully it now also
>>works on Netscape.
>>
>>Lex
>
>Thanks, that helped.
>
>But there seem to remain several problems:
>(1) The output is just plain wrong.  I have tried k1K5/8/1Q6/8/8/8/8/8 w - -
>    which should be a mate in 1.  It says: M0  huh?
>    Also, the draw scores are not attributed to the right moves.
>    May be a sorting problem.

You are right, thats fixed now.

>(2) The move list appears hardly readable.
>    I do not know about the TEXTAREA tag, but I would have used PRE.

I just tried it with PRE but that does not give me a scroll bar.

>(3) The FEN input field is too small.
>

Looks ok here, still made it a bit wider.


>You may want to use a HTML validator, e.g. http://validator.w3.org
>Once it works, it will be great!

Thanks for your input.

Lex


>
>Heiner



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