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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Mar 9, 2013 04:39 AM UTC:
I have removed support for drawing hexagonal boards as HTML tables. This method existed only because I made it before I came up with better ways to render hexagonal boards. It appears to be broken anyway, and I was already recommending against using it. I have removed mention of it from the documentation. Any games that did render hexagonal boards as HTML tables will now render them as GIF files.

I have also removed support for using the square shape with the CSS method. When this combination appears, the grid shape will be substituted. This works virtually the same, since the default values for nextfile and nextrank match the sizes of the squares in the tiled backgrounds. This fixed a bug caused by changing the shape in Shogi from grid to square.

I made this change to Shogi, because I also fixed how square boards get rendered as graphic images. When a rank or file has a null space for a marker, its height or width gets reduced to the Border Size, and nothing gets displayed in it. This allows the PNG, JPG, and GIF methods to produce output that looks more like the output of the Table method. Since the default preset for Shogi uses the Table method, and its default background image does not match the table results, I changed its shape to square, so that when a user selects PNG, JPG, or GIF without changing the shape, the board won't suddenly look completely different.

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