New board interface

I just has a look at it in EI and I have to say it look awesome on my end. If I were to make a suggestion, I would love to see a Tron themed board! That would just make my (and a bunch of other people's) day. If you need some sprites for it, I'd be more than happy to design them. ^^

~The MCP

Originally posted by TheMCP
I would love to see a Tron themed board!

Originally posted by Ravello
Haha,you use your old testing account uh?
Also the notebook on my move was a long avaited feature,good job.

Looks great! The only problem I see is that the wooden pieces and the newspaper pieces are a little choppy around the edges. Could use a little cleaning up.

Originally posted by stocken
I for one would like to see that, if not use it. 😀

Originally posted by Russ
As a final test to the new code, I am making the beta site available to all.
-Russ

Originally posted by sevenstar
under Mac OSX / Safari 1.3.2)

I sorta have an issue, though nothing major. In the new Analyze board, whenever I move a piece (edit: or even click a piece, it seems) the board like blinks and seems like it has to take an extra second to load my move. Is that the way it's going to be from now on? It also happens when you try to go through the entire game history move by move, which lots of players like to do just to get their feel back for a specific game. The little blinking effect slows that down quite a bit.


-Kev

Originally posted by Russ
What os/browser/version are you using please?

Also, how fast is your PC (is it older than 4 years old?)

I hoped not to see a post like that - it doesn't make a lot of sense that the analysis board is so slow and the main board isn't.

Although it may seem like madness to suggest this right now, does the problem clear up when you clear your browser cache?

-Russ

Now I can't load the beta, but that could be heavy traffic. I'm having to use the older version.

Originally posted by Moldy Crow
I'm on windows XP/OE on an old pc that has decent memory. But I'm chained into a crap dial up. Firefox is not an option-I tried it and had nothing but problems with it. I was hit with a tidal wave of work this morning right after my last post in this thread, and will have little time to play around with other options/changes for a while yet, but could you ...[text shortened]... ify the part about "clearing up my browsr cache".(I'm still not very savy on these things.)

Josef Hartwig designed a chess games (geometrical pieces) for the german artschool Bauhaus. I send a link to a webpage with a picture of it. Maybe somebody could re-create a pieces set in this art...

www.christian.zweigler.com , then select Interieur.

I find great all the new colors but it could be more fun if everybody had a painter's palette with 256 colors and if we can decide ourself our colors for the chessboard and eventually for the pieces too.

Good job!

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
I sorta have an issue, though nothing major. In the new Analyze board, whenever I move a piece (edit: or even click a piece, it seems) the board like blinks and seems like it has to take an extra second to load my move. Is that the way it's going to be from now on? It also happens when you try to go through the entire game history move by move, which ...[text shortened]... eel back for a specific game. The little blinking effect slows that down quite a bit.


-Kev

Originally posted by Russ
I have had another check to see if I can see what could cause problems on a slow pc.

I can only really think of two things :

1) opacity style being used when the green tiles are rendered.

2) Some security software is killing the javascript performance.

Do you have Opera installed? Could you try it? If it performs equally badly then that that would ...[text shortened]... slow down, so I am not convinced the new board code is that sensitive to machine speed.

-Russ

Originally posted by Moldy Crow
I know you're trying to please all of us, and it is greatly appreciated Russ. But isn't there a certain point where it becomes reasonable for you to tell us users of old pcs, "Too bad boys, if you want these new features you need to upgrade." I mean, it's not like my access to the site is denied. The last site I played on with my last computer(a very old ...[text shortened]... ng to do handsprings for us when it's obvious that the problem is on our end not yours.