Browsers_Notes

Web browsers notes

pgn4web is developed and tested with recent versions of a variety of browsers (arora, blackberry browser, chrome, epiphany, firefox, internet explorer, opera, safari) on a variety of personal computer platforms (linux/debian, macos, windows, chromeos) and some smartphone/pda platform (android, blackberry, apple ios for iphone/ipad/ipod).

Not every browser version has been tested (please upgrade to the latest stable release) and not every combination of browser/platform has been validated. If you have any issue with using pgn4web on your platform, please check the issues list and email pgn4web@casaschi.net

testing your HTML files locally

Loading of local data files with javascript is not supported by a number of browsers. As a result, local testing of HTML pages might fail when loading PGN files. Please avoid local testing and use a web server instead.

browser specific notes

• firefox
  • none
• google chrome
  • none
• internet explorer
  • version 9 and below: the chess engine of the analysis board is not supported, missing support for the web worker functionality
  • version 6 and below: pgn4web not working properly, too many HTML/CSS/JavaScript standard functionality not supported
• opera
  • none

web fonts notes

• using figurine fonts for chess moves requires a modern browser supporting web fonts; if the browser does not support web fonts, pgn4web will graciously fallback on textual piece initials
  • with internet explorer (IE9 specifically) you might experience problems with applying a custom font to the page body element that might not be inherited properly by contained items; the following css statement can be used as a workaround: div, span, table, tr, td { font-family: 'pgn4web Liberation Sans', sans-serif; /* fixes IE9 body css issue */ }
• using chess informant symbols for comments also requires a modern browser supporting web fonts; however, if the browser does not support web fonts, there's not elegant textual fallback and the game comments will appear garbled or incorrect