GoPanda 2 browser client

[EdLee]

The new GoPanda 2 browser client is very pretty:

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They are still working on adding features to match the older IGS clients.
- The board, stones, bowls, and lids for captured stones are BEAUTIFUL.

The following options are missing, not yet implemented?
- Option to display the board full screen
- Option to enable/disable the co-ordinates
- Keyboard options to Forward 1 move (right arrow), back 1 move (left arrow), etc.
- Option to display ranks and info of players, etc.

Benjamin Teuber, Erik Ouchterlony and Rasmus Buchmann -- Congrats and thank you!

[cdybeijing]

Wow, looks fantastic.

[oren]

I really don't like it compared to gopanda 1. I hope they do keep it up to date.

[EdLee]

Benjamin Teuber, Erik Ouchterlony and Rasmus Buchmann,
Here's a very crude MS-Paint mock-up to move the Black stones and lid to the lower left, to make room and prepare for full-screen mode:

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[Phelan]

That looks really nice! Good work!

[mw42]

I'll use it when you don't need Java Web Start to run it -- when it is a true browser client.

[Charlie]

I second what mw42 says. It does look great but it feels so clunky to run a local HTTP server that connects to a remote server and then open the local HTTP server's content in a browser. It makes me cringe.

[Charlie]

EdLee: what happened to black's (cli) center group in that game? I can only see a way to live with ko... although black will almost certainly win it.

[daal]

Anyone else think that the inside of the lower left lid looks convex instead of concave? It's as if the light is coming at each lid from a different source. I think it would look better if the lid from the top left were used for both.

[Bonobo]

Anyone else think that the inside of the lower left lid looks convex instead of concave? It's as if the light is coming at each lid from a different source. I think it would look better if the lid from the top left were used for both.

+1

[EdLee]

Charlie, I was looking at pretty much everything BUT the games themselves.

[bleep]

I like the interface, but I haven't been able to see how to save a game?

[ez4u]

I can't seem to logon as a guest (Firefox 17.0.1 on Windows 7). Anyone else have this problem?

[lovelove]

I can't seem to logon as a guest (Firefox 17.0.1 on Windows 7). Anyone else have this problem?

Pandanet english client prevents Japanese users to log in, cuz it is a payed service in Japan.

[ez4u]

I can't seem to logon as a guest (Firefox 17.0.1 on Windows 7). Anyone else have this problem?

Pandanet english client prevents Japanese users to log in, cuz it is a payed service in Japan.

Not quite true. I can't register for a free account because they want me to pay (hence my departure from IGS back around 2000 when they started checking IP addresses).

However, I can log in as a guest and observe games from any existing client, including straight off the Pandanet page for the old GoPanda (confirmed still true and I am observing a game as I write this). However, with GoPanda 2 instead of seeing the client there is a little login widget that pops up on the web page that requires both a username and password. The widget rejects an empty password without it ever going to the server as far as I can tell.