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H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Aug 6, 2020 08:25 AM UTC:

OK, I experimented a bit myself: I played a game until the page for entering the second leg came up, and then used "Save page as..." to make a local copy of it. If I load that local copy in the browser it is a bit mutilated, because it apparently misses som CSS file, but it is recognizable enough, and the embedded JavaScript actually functions: when I click on the piece that must continue the move the highlights come on. So then I edited the page, to add the JavaScript

function F() {
  var ori = legalMoves[0][0];
  for(var i=legalMoves.length-1; i>0; i--) if(legalMoves[i][0] != ori) break;
  if(i) movePiece(ori);
}
F();

directly after the definition of clearBorders(). This indeed did not work. When I hit F12 to see the JavaScript console it complains that img is not defined when movePiece tries to use it; this happens in a conditional section if(!submit || !movesField). Since the page actually does define a movesfield and a submitmove in its HTML this must be caused by premature execution of the script, before the entire page has loaded.

So I moved the calling of F(); to the very end of the page, in its own <script> tags. And then it worked! An alternative is to change the BODY tag to

<BODY CLASS="print" LANG="en" onload = "F();">

This also postpones execution of F() until after we can be sure movesField is present on the page. Yet another method (which I did not test), to do it from the existing JavaScript block, would be to delay the execution by, say, half a second through setTimeout("F();", 500); . This is a bit more risky, as it would fail when for some reason loading of the page takes more than 500ms, while we wouln't want to make the delay much larger so that the user has to noticeably wait for it. Inserting the existing <script> block at the bottom of the page, or in any case after all essential HTML elements, and just keeping a straight call F(); in it, should of course also work.


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