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Overyang. Variant using compounds of Yang Qi pieces. (11x13, Cells: 143) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 07:17 AM UTC:

Note: all HTML in this comment is to be viewed as text, so the unticking of the HTML box is deliberate. Edit since posting: why is not appearing as text, when I have the box unticked? I was unaware that Javascript per se raised any security issues, and under the impression that a bar on cookies was sufficient. The reason why ffen2diag.js is my first resort for displaying arrays is because it is so economical. I was planning to start a thread of wish lists for the 202nd Decade. My own list was to include more images for ffen diagrams and advice on getting ffen2diagcol.js to work to cut down the size of some of my 4-player variants. If there's any way to achieve something as brief as without using Javascript I'll gladly switch to it. The next most economical arrays are Ascii Art. Something like:

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|Sw2|Mk2|St2|Cr2|Qn2|Kg2|Qn2|Cr2|St2|Mk2|Sw2|
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|Tk2|   |Mh2|   |Cd2|   |Cd2|   |Mh2|   |Tk2|
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|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |
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|Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|
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|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |Pn2|   |
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|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |
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|Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|
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|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |Pn1|   |
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|Tk1|   |Mh1|   |Cd1|   |Cd1|   |Mh1|   |Tk1|
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|Sw1|Mk1|St1|Cr1|Qn1|Kg1|Qn1|Cr1|St1|Mk1|Sw1|
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is still quite brief but lacks the elegance of visual images. Generally I restrict it to variants with very exotic pieces - most recently AltOrth and its offshoots. My next page is of this kind and will use Ascii Art. You don't have any problems with

, I hope. In retrospect I might have done better using it for Armies of Faith. Some inventors show both a graphic array and Ascii Art, but that's worse than just the Ascii Art.
	A series of individual images really raises memory use. The sequence

is just one square out of, in this instance, 143 - I will not attempt to display the entire array this way in this comment! No wonder I want to eliminate them from my 4-player variants and replace them with ffen2diagcol.
	Image files are the worst of the lot. These days I try to confine them to boards confounding all other presentation - pentagonal cells, Yalta-style 3-player 'square' variants, and the like. They may make the HTML file look small, but they take up considerable memory im themselves.
	So sorry to disappoint you, but until there's an alternative using as little memory I hope to use more Javascript, even in existing page, not less or none.