Comments by panther

The link chessvariants dot com again resulted in a crash (I did it on Brave as well as Safari on my iphone, in case I didn't refresh my cache properly on Safari).

The 'Personal Variations' link (from Betza article) caused a white page plus crash, when I clicked on it while using Safari.

The link 'References' caused a white page and crash on my iphone. However, the 'Thought Experiment' link worked for me.

Using Safari's address bar on my iphone,

chessvariants dot com resulted in a white page plus crash.

When I tried the link 'Summary of Part 1' (in Betza article), again a white page plus crash happened.

@ Fergus

'Getting More Data' link causes a white page plus crash, on my iphone (you didn't mention it, but I also checked 'Mobility...' link before that link, and that link worked okay for me).

'Impossible by Definition' link worked okay for me, on the other hand.

I would not be against trying to first tell people not to try it, then finding a humane way, if possible somehow, of treating those who do use witchcraft, even (perhaps especially) in a malignant way. However, water torture or burning at the stake horrify me, and they're not very effective at coping with such a problem, I'd guess.

Perhaps an exorcist might need to be called, if a witch/wizard could be successfully subdued. Anyway, we are far from there, and sadly there are much bigger problems that make the news regularly in today's world, which is blinded by science to the exclusion of other possibilities.

Hi H.G.

When I type that address into address bar on Safari, I get a White screen, except in the upper left there is 'Hello World!' with some small writing under it. Hope that helps.

I edited my previous two posts in this thread, in case anyone missed it.

@ Fergus or H.G.

I entered the address H.G. gave me in the post I'm replying to, on my phone, this time in Safari's address bar on top of my iphone's screen - this time the search lasted too long, so I hit the back arrow to stop it.

Yes, that's what I think I've been doing. At least, Firefox and Brave, when I use their Icons on my phone, only offer one place/slot to type into when 'searching' - though Firefox immediately shows a small Google logo in the slot area when I start to enter some text for in that slot of its. So, not sure if an address bar is provided at all.

@ Fergus (or H.G.)

One person I talked to today, that has an iphone, I asked to type in chessvariants dot com, and they said their phone told them that the website could not be found. They told me they used Safari. This was at my home with its Wifi also, and the person is usually busy and often away from home (my Russian landlady, in a fair mood this morning anyway).

edit: note that when I use Google from Safari on my phone, when I try that web address, the crash message is now preceeded by a yellow CVP Logo.

@ H.G.

When I use Google (from Safari, presumably), typing that address you suggested gives me at least two search results that are fancy links to the CVP homepage - I chose the first one (the second was highlighted as if I visited it already) and a white screen resulted with the usual message implying that a crash was occurring.

Not sure how to not involve a search machine. Brave is the one browser I have on my phone at the moment that I am not at all sure uses any search engine (unless Brave has its own search engine). Sad to say, I know relatively little about mobile phones or even modern computers, still.

My Firefox icon on my phone, after I click on it, has a Google icon show up on the navigation bar when I try typing things in.

Brave's navigation bar may be independent from Google. However a couple of those URLs I tried (of the 7) seem to lead to never-ending searching (I hit the back arrow after a long time passed). Takes a while to type in all the characters for those URLs for me at least, so I am giving up at least for tonight. Brave also has it's own Icon on my phone.

Vivaldi, on the other hand, did not get an Icon put on my phone that I'm aware of, so I previously used it through Safari/Google by searching for the browser there, if that's what I was doing(!?).

I can gradually ask more and more people at the 2 bars I go to (one more than the other) if they have an iphone that they could use to test if they get CVP site on okay. Eventually someone probably will say they use an iphone. At the moment I am not going to bars much, at least until early April, as I'm on a very tight budget, and just ordering one drink of something isn't much reward for walking one way for about 15 minutes in either case. I'm not sure if anyone I live with has an iphone, but it's hit or miss if our paths cross on a given day for long, if at all.

Now it's back to LinkedIn site for me tonight.

@ Fergus

Those 7 pages' addresses all caused website crashed message when I typed them into Google on my iphone (that is, via Safari I guess) and clicked on the first search result link for each that was offered. I can try entering them again in different browsers later, if you wish.

Right now I have a lot of people I want to try to contact on LinkedIn for much of the rest of the night, so I'll return to CVP site later on.

edited my last post in case you missed it, Fergus.

I got Brave browser next. Could get NHL Scores. Upon searching for chessvariants dot com the engine acted like it was in an endless loop. I hit the back arrow and brave said it had a '500 Internal Error', whatever that means. When I tried the http address for CVP homepage, the engine eventually stopped searching without giving any result, after not too long.

Microsoft Edge I dislike enough already, in using as the browser for my laptop (I've never finished completely installing it, as it keeps trying to trick me and many other people into). I went to get it for free use on my phone as a browser, but right from the start it wanted some information, unusually(?), such as my email address. Sorry, but I then balked at getting it. Do you know of any other browser(s) that are free on Apple phones at least, Fergus?

I requested the desktop website for the CVP homepage after the White page appeared (i.e. as a result my Google search with my phone), but the grey screen with reduced white screen on it (plus crash message) appeared.

I then soon got Firefox for my phone (apparently free). I could get a summary of NHL scores when I searched using FIrefox (don't know if it acted as the search engine, too, if that's possible). However, when I searched for chessvariants dot com, after a bit of a wait an entirely black screen appeared, with no sort of error message. The same thing happened when I used the http address for the CVP homepage.

I need to take a break from my hours-long laptop use now, but maybe that helped you somehow, I hope.

Fergus, this post I am replying to is relevant to my next-to-latest post in this thread, as far as describing how I reduce in size the White screen that happens after a crash of a website on Google (on my phone).

I guess when a website is thought to have crashed, and put on a white screen on my phone, perhaps Google is no longer in effect as my browser, somehow. For later, when I reduce the White screen as I described in a previous post, the White screen is reduced to half the size of a new grey screen that it is put onto.

When I delete the reduced White screen, I am taken to a new page where listed are a few frequently visited places I go to on my phone, including Google (a fresh icon with a colorful 'G' is given for it, as well as an icon for Google as last used, apparently, that would restore the White page if I choose to click on that one - which I've done before just to see what would happen). To complete my journey back to the Google homepage, I click on the fresh icon for Google.

Yes, I read about AA symbol before I reported to you last night. The problem as I saw it was, if I need to already be on the homepage on my phone to request the desktop version of it, that is currently impossible since I cannot get to that web page before a Crash occurs in making the very attempt to get there.

I edited my last post Fergus, possibly with a vital detail.

edit: I later tried typing chessvariants dot com into Google on my phone, then requested the desktop version of that address without yet clicking on it. I then had the same experience as in my previous post when I clicked on that address (that is, many CVP search results showed, etc.).

edit2: later still I got the desktop version (on my phone, starting from Google) of https colon //chessvariants dot com, and had the same sort of experience (that is, many CVP search results showed, etc.).