Author: Lex Loep
Date: 22:49:29 03/20/01
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On March 20, 2001 at 18:07:57, Heiner Marxen wrote: >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). Here it is a list with one move per line and a scrollbar. I want a scrollable area just next to the board. I am open to suggestions. > >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 > I will check this later today. >>>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. > Your are right, I made a Q&D fen parser in VBScript and its just ignoring the slashes. Well it was a sunday afternoon project :) >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.) > That would be very nice indeed, I was also thinking adding some javascript to allow to drag the pieces on the board but your suggestion looks easyer to make. >BTW: I like the board design. Graphics, colours & size are fine for me. > >Thanks for your efforts to serve the public! > Thans for your feedback. Lex >Heiner
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