Comments by CharlesGilman
When my attempt to edit fails I get error 403. When it is successful a garbled version of the variant appears on the next page - but with the "view submission" link at the bottom so that I can continue to the page as edited.
For the record, in case an editor has time to make - and better success updating - the changes, the intention was to replace the three ffen diagrams on the Nearlydouble Chess page with the following virtual images respectively:
Both Castlings would take place the same side of the King, depending whether the inner Rook was still there.
Of course doing multi-image diagrams raw has its costs as well, which is why I emphasise stored. That is where ffen diagrams come in, as regards traditional computing. As far as the HTML document is concerned it is a calculated image, taking up not much more space in the text of the page than a single image but without an image file's use of memory outside the text of the page either. As far as a large enough screen is concerned they also behave like a single image, at least if nothing else is on the same line, and desktop monitors have been getting bigger all century. The problem is how they behave on the mobile devices to which this thread's title refers - and I am guessing that Ascii Art is not very mobile-friendly either.
Now there are various facilities for playing many of the variants on these pages, and I would be surprised (and indeed disappointed at the capabilities of programming) if they generated an image file for every position that ever came up. In terms of more typical programming, It would be the equivalent of every control on a Visual Studio form replicating the entire definition of tha control. What I do not know is how the playing facilities stand up to use on a tiny screen. If they can be made to behave as single images even on-screen, surely something can be done somewhere along the line that can be done to make ffen diagrams do so as well. It would be a shame to lose such a useful shorthand for want of it functioning on mobile devices.
Anglis Taijitu rnbqkbnr ac----ca -------- -------- -------- -------- AC----CA RNBQKBNR Yanglis rnbqkbnr pcpaapcp -p-pp-p- -------- -------- -P-PP-P- PCPAAPCP RNBQKBNR Anglis Eurasian rc-aa-cr -nbqkbn- pppppppp -------- -------- PPPPPPPP -NBQKBN- RC-AA-CR Anglis Hindcannon -c-aa-c- rnbqkbnr pppppppp -------- -------- PPPPPPPP RNBQKBNR -C-AA-C- Anglis Midcannon rnbqkbnr c--aa--c pppppppp -------- -------- PPPPPPPP C--AA--C RNBQKBNR Anglis Forecannon rnbqkbnr pppppppp -c-aa-c- -------- -------- -C-AA-C- PPPPPPPP RNBQKBNR
12 Sharp Chess;
16 Seasons;
2 Jewels;
2 Level Guru Mahachaturaji;
3 Level 4 Player variants;
3 Player Honeycomb;
4 Faces;
4 Linepiece Fusion;
Armies of Faith 1/2/3/4/5/6;
BacCanCat;
Brookschach;
Chaturanga with minor changes;
Commedia dell'Arte Chess;
Compact Hex;
Cornucopia;
Courier Leapale;
Crossover-piece Dual-dircetion variants;
Crouching Stepper... ;
Diamond Ring Chess;
Double Cross Besiege;
Fimbriated Chess;
Flyover Xiang Qi/Shogi;
Gutenschach;
Half Nearlydouble;
2 and 3 dimensional Herichess;
Hourglass Hex Chess;
Irwell;
Larger Wildeurasian Variants;
Lengthleaper Chess;
Mini Fivequarters;
Mitred Framing 1/2/3;
Nested Chess/Xiang Qi/Shogi;
Notchess;
OctHex 146;
Pass Variants;
Proto Prelates;
SerPent;
Shoxiang 108;
Small Game Nearlydoubles;
Stock Goes East 49 Files;
Taijitu Qi;
Tardis Taijitu;
Tee Garden Shogi;
Tetrahedral Shogi;
Turn Qi;
Twin-board Ecumenical Chess;
Weltschach;
Westfield Chess;
Yo[n]o Shogi;
Yoto.
Any of you who have seen these in the old form and dismissed them as badly designed might wish to revisit them now that the tabulation issue has been ironed out.
Sorry, that should have been 10x10, not 100x10. The latter size would be too large even for me - including in the 3d sense of a cube of side 10.
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