Re: Besides...

In Reply to: Re: Besides... posted by Jon Morten Berg on November 20, 19102 at 23:22:43:

Mat,

Take your modified PGN (annotation or commentary with html code) used with PalView to generate the Musical Christmas Tree Page, and import it into a chess program (many support PGN import) Most programms will (as demanded by the PGN standard) display the embedded HTML code as annotation. I call this UGLY. Your PGN file becomes unusable for anything else other than PalView.

Unless I am mistaken, the aim of palview was to allow us to build webpages using PGN files (unadulterated) as they are exported from our chess programs.
In keeping with both of these requirements, your solution misses the mark. In the Computer Software industry, your soution is called a hack. Hacks are cool, hacks are fun. They demonstrate the the programmer as the real power to do what he wants. Unfortunately relying on hacks to solve problems invariably results in software whcih is impossible to maintain, impossible to enhance, and eventually impossible to use.

A better solution would be the proposed modification to PalView et al. and enhance the css support for comments as you originally described.

Oh by the way, I enjoyed the music. 1 I like Bach music, (the first music I input into a computer was bach's 2 part invention in F on an Arati 800), and 2 it successfully annoyed my co-worker (next cubicle over)