embedded FENs in forum pages

When FENs are added in order to display a board position, I think there are some features that would be very helpful:
1) An option to specify the board's orientation (white at bottom or black at bottom.
2) An option to allow copying the FEN (maybe you could display the FEN text along with the position).

Thanks

Originally posted by zucchini
1) An option to specify the board's orientation (white at bottom or black at bottom).

This might be a problem because FEN notation is universal. If you add new terms, it become a unique siglum style for this site.

As Russ has it now, I can paste FENs into computer programs and web sites. Adding a new term would destroy compatibility.

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It's not necessary to extend the FEN notation to provide the feature Zucchini is asking for. It could be part of the tag: something like for white's view of the board
and [fen inverted]6r1/2R5/kp6/3bBpNP/p2P1P2/2P5/1P4P1/6K1 b - - 0 39[/fen] for Black's.

Originally posted by RolandYoung
It's not necessary to extend the FEN notation to provide the feature Zucchini is asking for. It could be part of the tag: something like [fen]6r1/2R5/kp6/3bBpNP/p2P1P2/2P5/1P4P1/6K1 b - - 0 39[/fen] for white's view of the board
and [fen inverted]6r1/2R5/kp6/3bBpNP/p2P1P2/2P5/1P4P1/6K1 b - - 0 39[/fen] for Black's.

Got it. I guess I didn't know enough about webpage design to have commented 😲

Sounds like a good idea then 🙂

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