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Posted by Jon morten Berg on November 18, 19102 at 06:53:24: Let me begin by thanking the people behind PalView, PalMate and PalLive for three very useful applications! In light of the excellence of the applications, please consider the following points not as criticism, but as helpful suggestions. When using your applications I found that games with large amounts of text were simpler to read when the moves and the annotations had different colours, else the moves was often lost among the bulk text. When changing the colours of the variations however, I found that only the colour of the move links could be changed independently, while the number for each move would retain the same colour as the annotations. The style sheets supplied with PalMate had a branch (called “The actual moves of the game”) that kept the move numbers in the main variation from retaining the colour of the introductory text. I wondered if you would consider adding a similar branch in the game comment section to separate the move numbers from the text commentary in upcoming versions of the applications? It would go a long way towards making extensively annoted games much easier to read. I also wondered if you would consider adding the option of using .jpgs or .gifs as border around the board instead of just plain colour? This would open a wide range of interesting possibilities for making nice looking boards, like adding numbers and letters, 3d effects, etc. I have no idea whether it’s possible to put pictures in the border of html-tables (probably not), but at least it shouldn’t be too complicated to add table-fields around the board where the picture files could go as backgrounds. My last point is either just curiosity or possibly a bug. After having used PalView\PalMate for a while I discovered several .css files on the root of my hard-drive. Their names were the same as the default style sheets provided with PalMate, and they seem to have been copied there when PalMate (or PalView, I don’t know which) copies the .css files to the folder of the .html file. The files are small, and they do no harm being where they are, but on the other hand there are no reason, at least that I can see, why the files should be there either. Once more, thank you for three useful applications.
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