Bonody’s ferpect : 6 tips to improve your online gaming life on Board Game Arena (and probably anywhere else too)

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Not to get too far into the weeds of web development, but a lot of the reasons for recommending one browser over another have less to do with cutting edge features or shiny new toys than the time it takes to test and code for each browser engine. Code that works just fine in one browser (even if it's doing something fairly routine) can sometimes show different behavior in another, and it can multiply the amount of testing time required to support a game or application.

To that end, initial development is often done on the browser platform used by the widest audience, which can be a self-perpetuating cycle, to be sure. I'm certainly not saying that other browsers shouldn't be as well-supported, just recognizing that there's a cost to doing so.

Also, Microsoft Edge is now using the same engine as Google Chrome, so as long as your copy of Edge is up-to-date, you're likely to have as good results with Edge as you do with Chrome. There are always exceptions, of course... :)
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Wow, thanks for this! There were genuinely helpful tips in here that I will be using in the future.
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Those tips are useful. Is there a pdf of that info somewhere?
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Greeting! You're the best! I have only one complaint, and that is for playing via phone or tablet, and that is that it is impossible to see additional information for cards, fields, tiles, etc., which is easily seen when using a computer - by only placing the cursor over the desired object. Can you fix that somehow?
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Grcak wrote: 23 September 2021, 19:17 Greeting! You're the best! I have only one complaint, and that is for playing via phone or tablet, and that is that it is impossible to see additional information for cards, fields, tiles, etc., which is easily seen when using a computer - by only placing the cursor over the desired object. Can you fix that somehow?
You can. Just long press on elements to make tooltips appears on mobile.
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Tisaac wrote: 23 September 2021, 19:18
Grcak wrote: 23 September 2021, 19:17 Greeting! You're the best! I have only one complaint, and that is for playing via phone or tablet, and that is that it is impossible to see additional information for cards, fields, tiles, etc., which is easily seen when using a computer - by only placing the cursor over the desired object. Can you fix that somehow?
You can. Just long press on elements to make tooltips appears on mobile.
Thanks a lot, it works great on a mobile phone. Unfortunately I have problems with that on the tablet, but thank you for your help.
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This doesn't seem right. On my MacBook Pro I was having issues when using Chrome, which is my main browser, where my computer would heat up to a million degrees with certain games (Carnegie, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Beyond the Sun, and a few more of the newer games). So I switched to Safari and had no issues on any of those games. Cool as a cucumber. But based on this post I went to try Firefox and everything takes 5-10 seconds extra to load. I mean it's really slow. It's never slow like this on Safari. I'm not an advocate for any of them. I could care less. But I would say try them all and go with what works for your setup. But so far in my experience Safari has been the best.
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Safari non viene aggiornato/mantenuto per supportare i più recenti standard web con la rapidità necessaria.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Semmai sono le pagine web che non si adattano agli standard settati anche da Apple.
Ricordiamo che iOS ancora prima di essere chiamato così è stata forse una delle prime piattaforme a rifiutarsi di utilizzare Adobe Flash per le animazioni, implementando da subito gli standard di HTML 5, mentre un sacco di siti sono andati avanti imperterriti per anni ad usare la vecchia, pesante e poco elegante tecnologia Flash.

I problemi di visualizzazione su Safari sono dovuti a questo: la difficoltà di adattare una piattaforma vecchia come BGA ai moderni standard HTML.
Poi se altri browser mantengono una retrocompatibilità maggiore e quindi la vecchia struttura del sito funziona meglio su di loro è un altro discorso, ma il motivo non è che Safari non è aggiornato: è troppo aggiornato rispetto all’architettura del sito e non tutte le vecchie parti di BGA funzionano con un browser che supporta solo gli standard recenti.
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Draasill wrote: 22 September 2021, 10:19
Dragon Bob wrote: 22 September 2021, 02:40 On a related note: is there a way to quickly see a list of all the tournaments I'm currently playing in?
Hi,
you have the option to display them in the tournament list (by selecting "Only tournaments I registered for").

Direct link : https://boardgamearena.com/tournamentli ... &full=true
Thanks!
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Tootzo1701 wrote: 26 September 2021, 19:26
Safari non viene aggiornato/mantenuto per supportare i più recenti standard web con la rapidità necessaria.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Semmai sono le pagine web che non si adattano agli standard settati anche da Apple.
Ricordiamo che iOS ancora prima di essere chiamato così è stata forse una delle prime piattaforme a rifiutarsi di utilizzare Adobe Flash per le animazioni, implementando da subito gli standard di HTML 5, mentre un sacco di siti sono andati avanti imperterriti per anni ad usare la vecchia, pesante e poco elegante tecnologia Flash.

I problemi di visualizzazione su Safari sono dovuti a questo: la difficoltà di adattare una piattaforma vecchia come BGA ai moderni standard HTML.
Poi se altri browser mantengono una retrocompatibilità maggiore e quindi la vecchia struttura del sito funziona meglio su di loro è un altro discorso, ma il motivo non è che Safari non è aggiornato: è troppo aggiornato rispetto all’architettura del sito e non tutte le vecchie parti di BGA funzionano con un browser che supporta solo gli standard recenti.
Definitively not. Try using filter drop shadow on safari and you will see how slugish it gets.
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