Features_Limitations_Bugs

Features, limitations and bugs

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Key features

• display chess games form PGN files on websites and blogs
• supports live broadcast of games
• interactive browsing of game variations and comments
• shortcut keys for navigating through the game, for selecting games and much more; uses chessboard squares as input buttons; on supported touchscreen devices uses touch gestures across the chessboard
• fully customizable display: each item (board, button bar, game selection menu, PGN header info, game text, game comment and more) can be displayed (or hidden) at pleasure in your html file
• supports different bitmaps for chess pieces (even custom bitmaps) and different chessboard sizes
• uses figurine fonts for chess moves and chess informant style symbols for comments and annotations
• provides a very simple board generator web tool helping you adding chess games to your website or blog without any html/javascript coding
• integrates with popular web platforms and services such as blogger, drupal, joomla, mediawiki, phpBB, wordpress.org and many others
• supports puzzles presentation modes
• integrates with HTML5 video
• supports Chess960 (a.k.a. Fischer random chess) games

Limitations

• only one chessboard for html file (use inline frames if you need to display more in the same view)
• the pgn4web website and the provided onlines services are served using http and no equivalent https version is currently available; this might result in issues with the pgn4web board widget and the pgn4web board generator. Please refer to the pgn4web board generator notes about using iframes from https sites for more information and suggested workarounds.

Known bugs

• no major issue at the moment of writing, please check the project issues tracker

User feedback

Please email the pgn4web project your feedback, suggestions and bug reports. Please send for review any PGN file that pgn4web fails parsing correctly.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: pa...@casaschi.net

FAQ: why the pgn4web game text does not print the capture x, the promotion = and the check + PGN signs?

The graphical look and feel of pgn4web is inspired by the layout of chess informant publications that omit the capture x, the promotion = and the check + signs. This allows for a minimalist, compact and easy to read game display.

In general terms, pgn4web is a PGN viewer and as such its output does not necessarily has to strictly follow the PGN export specification; however most PGN reader should be able to process reasonably well the minimalist pgn4web game text output.

This default pgn4web behavior can be overridden in order to display those extra sign by patching/redefining the function CleanMove(move) { ...} in file pgn4web.js; see inine code comments for more details.