Are their limits to the length of annotations to replayable games posted in forums and blogs? Do games with long annotations function better than certain browsers?
After some difficulties yesterday (described elsewhere in the help forum), I posted an annotated game in my blog. However, the game will not load in my usual browser (Firefox), but does load in the usually inferior Internet Explorer. I checked it on a slower internet connection at a relative's house yesterday, and there it also opened in Explorer (I was not able to test Firefox there, to my utter dismay).
Can some one offer a plausible explanation?
"Are their limits to the length of annotations to replayable games posted in forums and blogs? Do games with long annotations function better than certain browsers?"
I've posted some long games (100+ moves) and I've posted some heavily annotated games with no problems... and the games replay the same in Firefox, IE7, and IE6 for me (although IE6 hits some layout and graphical issues).
As far as the 'game doesn't load' issue I see I have seen this before... about once every two weeks I see it happen to somebody's game. Hopefully someone from the chess.com team will take a look and let you know. But you also might try re-posting the game now and see whether that fixes it. It's sometimes that simple.
Before posting games on the web, I usually reduce them to one level of variation and post most of my comments in the mainline. I also often add symbols (!, +/=) to the variations by-hand. This tends to make them easier for visitors to read and avoids issues.
I played with it some, reducing the extent of the annotations, and then reposted with the same result.
http://blog.chess.com/Ziryab/steinitz-vs-the-evans-gambit
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