Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 15:05:59 01/08/00
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You forgot to mention that the two colors I chose for the board are taken from the 216 color palette which is not supposed to dither on both PCs and Macs running at 256 colors. :) Otherwise, I might have chosen a lighter "buff" color. For years I've been adjusting my chess programs to approximate the popular standard green and buff vinyl board. I did ask around for opinions as far as which green color to choose. Since I was limited by that 216 color palette, it was not hard to choose though. Anything darker was too dark, and anything lighter was too bright. I can't remember who first suggested the whole idea of putting in the diagram capability. It may have been Bruce Moreland, but it was months ago and only now did I have time to implement it. >2) Slightly more subtle > > a) Tim provides "side on move" markers that use both color > (open circle for White, filled circle for Black, like SmartChess Mac) > and position (White side for white, Black side for Black, like > PGNtalk Mac) to cue you. [ I think they could be made smaller, > more of the size of a chess piece, though - they are a bit distracting] It's so hard to come up with anything original. I'm sure I've seen this done in a book or magazine somewhere. Yes, they should be smaller. > [ Of course, the designer of the "Linares" font deserves the real > credit here, but Tim can at least be complimented on his taste <grin>] I'll talk about the font in another message. >3) Really subtle - you won't see this unless you look at his HTML > > a) Tim has provided "alt" strings for the images, which means that > you can view these diagrams (as text diagrams) with images turned > off in your browser, or with a text-only browser, like Lynx. > Since I surf by vt100 emulator through dialup into a Unix box > with Lynx (since, when appropriate, it is often faster than surfing > using my cable modem and Netscape, since it cuts out all the > bandwidth-hogging multimedia stuff), I appreciate this. Yes, from the beginning I wanted to support all broswers, and not crash any by using a client side scripting language. [...] > (I just thought of that - What do you think, > Tim? You could use the Chessbase brown on brown for Black to move, > and the green & buff for White to move ...) Eek! That might be a little too bizarre. >Great job, Tim! Thanks! :)
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