Comments by benr

Hmm, the ffen2diag tool already uses nobr tags.  That's deprecated now, but it should still work to prevent breaking the images into new lines...?

I tweaked the menu a bit so the Favorites menu shows up correctly on my
mobile (made it a touch wider).  I've also added (again) some links to the
Info tab.  (Fergus, have you seen my emails?)

Also, I modified the "List all subjects" page to give names to the
post-2012 topics that have hexadecimal codes as their subjectid's.

I have hidden some of the administrative tools in the footers as well.  They are visible only when the currently logged in user is an Editor.

Fergus, my email to you in 2011 was from my general email address; after
becoming an editor here in 2013 I started emailing you from the address
listed in my Personal Information page.

I can see what you mean about the width of the comments.  (I noticed it
when I made the change, but dismissed it.)  I could enforce a max-width,
but if you want to design a nice background for the resulting margins then
I'll leave it to you: design is not my thing.

I would leave it in, but add a rook to, say, 4134.

I had realized that a K+Q wins against bare k, but hadn't bothered to put much thought into other mates (even non-forcible ones) before.  I think these are quite interesting.

And how does this page relate to the other games?  If it's just clarifications or add-ons, I will change it to a non-Game page (maybe Reference?), and you should probably include links to the relevant games.

I hope someone here has played more 3-player chess than I to be able to answer Timmy's questions. One thing I can say about any multiplayer chess is that a free-for-all tends to lead to players who are behind ganging up on the leader(s). Most people find this a detriment to the game.

Three player variants on this site
[Our games have an entry for number of players, but our searches previously didn't allow it to be searched. I've added code to make that possible. I will update some search forms later, as I hope to add/modify some other functionality there still.]

I was hoping for a solution that would scale images enough so that lines
were not broken.  (Alignment for boards with different rank sizes is
another issue, which I had not considered yet.)  I was looking for a way
that the js output could be treated as a single object to be scaled to fit
the screen; perhaps flattening to a single image would do that in addition
to being better for other reasons.

By "transition to single images hosted on this site" do you mean on the
author's end?

For ASCII diagrams I am mostly concerned with old pages (90s ones :P) that
already use them (and whose authors might no longer be active).  I suppose
changing msdisplay to add P tags and a monospace font will make any
"non-HTML" page without an ASCII diagram better on mobile, and will make
such pages with a wide ASCII diagram bad on mobile, but just in a different
way than at present.

I had thought about introducing a more sophisticated text entry method
(e.g. CKEditor or TinyMCE), which could render "Uses HTML" obsolete (for
future pages): every page would use HTML, but the user wouldn't need to
worry about coding.  On top of that, we could be a little more careful
about what we allow our users to submit (whitelisting html elements and
customizing to allow Muller's [diagram], the ffen2diag script, etc.).  If
we think we want to and can manage to move to a third-party CMS, then I
won't keep looking into this.  (This is outside my tech comfort zone, so
it would take me a while anyway.)

H.G., can you link to such an example?  As far as I can tell, we just apply wordwrapping (to default 75 characters) and put PRE tags around each section.  But this should preserve linebreaks, and seems to e.g. at
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MS4chessfourdime

Or did you mean in the comments?
Test.
Aha, ordinary linebreaks here don't get processed.  I can probably fix this reasonably quickly.

Fergus, I think one of the text entry systems I mentioned in my last comment would do the first three bullets of what you want.  And I would like to disallow arbitrary use of scripts, instead having the displaying function replace things like [diagram] with the appropriate script (for a short list of approved scripts).