Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 15:07:57 03/20/01
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On March 20, 2001 at 16:05:11, Lex Loep wrote: >On March 20, 2001 at 14:44:44, Heiner Marxen wrote: >>(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. Sure, PRE does not give a scroll bar. My browser already has one, so I would not have missed one. I suspect, Netscape does interpret TEXTAREA only inside of an FORM attribute. My Textarea looks like: Request 26: position: -M11 Moves: a3-a2 -M10 Kh7-h6 -M7 Kh7-g7 -M7 Kh7-g8 -M7 Kh7-h8 -M7 It is in proportional font, and I cannot even cut and paste it (I had to retype the above). I just looked into some online HTML documentation: - The TEXTAREA attribute READONLY is implemented in MS-IE 4.x, but not in Netscape 4.x. Therefore putting it into the form may not have the wanted effect. - The STYLE= inside the INPUT tag does not work. My input field has a default width of 20 characters (size in pixels changes with font size). The documentation gives the hint that Netscape does not like blanks inside of Style-Values and tends to ignore them then. Uuh :-( Seems to happen here. Anyway, why do you specify pixels, and not just size=NN, which works with any font size? >>(3) The FEN input field is too small. > >Looks ok here, still made it a bit wider. see above >>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 I know how hard it is to produce good HTML, I've done that at work. And I like to share what I know ;-) Just found another glitch: your FEN parser appears to ignore the slashes, i.e. it interprets: k1K/8/1Q6/8/8/8/8/8 as k1K5/4Q3/8/8/8/8/8/8 A slash should force the start of a row. Otherwise you should document, how you interpret your result. Anyhow, you should output the normalized effective FEN of what you show. Not the string the user gave, but the normal form (what you think it means). Yet another hint: you could offer a clickable URL for every move in the list, to follow that move. Provided you do not do it as a textarea. (I have made my own local FEN viewer as a CGI script, and there I did it as a selection list that overrides the FEN text input, but that can be counter intuitive, when both are given.) BTW: I like the board design. Graphics, colours & size are fine for me. Thanks for your efforts to serve the public! Heiner
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