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M Winther wrote on Sat, May 5, 2012 05:18 AM UTC:
Fergus, here is a Chrome screenshot:
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/scrensh.htm

I have used this version of Chrome and this operating system a long time
now.  I haven't changed hardware. This problem didn't exist before. 
/Mats

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, May 5, 2012 01:27 PM UTC:
Your screenshot looks fine. I don't see what the problem is.

M Winther wrote on Sat, May 5, 2012 05:17 PM UTC:
Fergus, this is very strange. The following preset is clearly oblong on my
screen. I am the only one who has this problem?
Revised Chess
/Mats

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, May 5, 2012 06:42 PM UTC:
Have you accidentally changed your screen resolution?

M Winther wrote on Sun, May 6, 2012 03:21 AM UTC:
No, no settings have been changed. I created a simple html table  and it is
quadratic in Chrome, so something must have changed on the Chess Variant
site. However, if nobody else can reproduce this problem, then nothing can
be done about it. Here is the simple table board that looks quadratic in
Chrome (but it doesn't show in IE on account of the empty cells) :
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/chess/blueboard.htm
/Mats

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, May 6, 2012 11:48 AM UTC:
So far, I don't even have a clear idea of what you're saying the problem
is. Your screenshot didn't look abnormal, and you haven't supplied any
more screenshots of Game Courier. How about providing two screenshots for
the sake of comparison, one that has the problem you're describing and one
that doesn't, both of the same game.

David Howe wrote on Sun, May 6, 2012 12:34 PM UTC:
I believe he's saying that the height of the squares is greater than the
width.

John Ayer wrote on Mon, May 7, 2012 12:37 AM UTC:
I finally took a look, and, yes, the height seems to be about a quarter
greater than the width.  I am using Firefox.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, May 7, 2012 02:18 AM UTC:

Using a screenshot of the default preset, I took measurements of individual squares and found them to be 50x54 or 50x55. I then edited the source code to see what could be causing this difference. I removed the images from one rank, and after I did that, the squares in that rank were 50x50. The images and the table cells were both set to a height and width of 50. I looked at the CSS code but found nothing to account for the difference. I tried setting the margin and padding of IMG to 0px, but it didn't help. I removed the header code from the source code, but it didn't help. I removed common.css from the source code, but it didn't make a difference. Removing global.css from the source code didn't help either. Finally, I removed the DOCTYPE, and that made the square sizes 50x50.

Since the DOCTYPE is there so that the menus work right in Internet Explorer, I moved the DOCTYPE within an IE conditional. This fixed the problem in Firefox, but it didn't fix it in Internet Explorer.

The DOCTYPE used was

I had copied this one from another page on this site. I did some research on DOCTYPE options and switched to this DOCTYPE:

This one fixed the problem and still let the menus work right in Internet Explorer.

M Winther wrote on Mon, May 7, 2012 04:03 AM UTC:
Thanks. Now the proportions are correct both in Chrome and IE.
/Mats

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