Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 05:46:07 01/19/02
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On January 19, 2002 at 02:54:46, Jonas Cohonas wrote: > http://www.betachess.dk > > Please tell me what you think, and let me know (in detail > if you have the time) what was good and what was not. > Is the speed ok, does it view properly in your browser > etc. Is there any features you would like to see, > all you can think of. Doesn't work *at all* in my browser. I don't think it's because of the browser itself; I have JavaScript turned off, and even when I turn it on I have window.open() disabled. Unfortunately, everything in the site seems to depend critically on this. Couldn't you provide a "plain" version, just using ordinary HTML to do the stuff HTML was designed to do (e.g., lists of hyperlinks)? Actually, it seems that there's a browser incompatibility too; the first page beyond the opening click-through doesn't display its menu at all for me. I'm using Konqueror on a FreeBSD box. For those who can't or won't do Java, you could make the PGN files (Gameofthemonth.pgn and live.pgn) available for download by more conventional means. The news page shouldn't require Java. Again, there should be a plain HTML version. If what you want is a site that looks nice for users of recent IE versions who have support for JavaScript and Java turned on, and who don't mind everything taking twice as long as is necessary, you're doing very well. If what you want is a site of useful resources for use even by people with nonstandard OSes or browsers or who won't turn on Java support in their browsers for some reason, it could use some improvement :-). A more concrete suggestion: On the front page, put a link (in ordinary HTML) called something like "plain HTML" or "no frills". This links to a page which has a list of links: news, databases, whatever else can be got at without using Java and JavaScript. It also has a paragraph telling readers what they're missing by not using the fancy version of the site, and a link to the main page of the fancy version. The news page in this version, again, is just a list of links to ordinary HTML pages. The database page is just a list of links to the raw PGN files. Is it worth doing thia? Depends. I suspect it's only freaks like me who don't run Internet Explorer with everything turned on who will be inconvenienced by the site as it stands. But I *suspect* (no evidence!) that the proportion of such freaks is higher among computer chess enthusiasts than in the population at large. -- g
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