This is awesome. If you want help from other contributors, you'll probably find it easier to collaborate if you move memchess into its own repo (vs storing it in the grondilu.github.io repo). Each repo can have a dedicated GH Pages.
You get your own space that's not a cookie cutter box, like a hotel. Also, you generally stay in a part of town that is residential and not filled with other hotels and business. When it goes well, it feels like you really get to know the town you're visiting.
My least favorite elevator control panel is the one that is not in the elevator and is a touch screen.
If the control panel is outside the elevator, you can't change your mind, you can't push a button for someone else, and sometimes you can't even verify what floor you're being sent to.
Call panel not in the cab -- so you must be talking about a "destination dispatch" system. With DD, you go to a call kiosk, and enter your desired destination floor, and the kiosk tells you which car to take. DD systems are done because it allows for much more sophisticated scheduling, and larger elevator lobbies with longer walk times, the net result being much better capacity, especially at peak traffic times.
In the cab you will typically have a button to take you back to the lobby in case you didn't get off on your desired floor and can't enter another call.
Modern destination dispatch systems are integrated with RF badge readers so that the elevator system can be programmed with your office floor, and so you don't need to go to the kiosk at all, just walk past it, and it will schedule your to a car to take you to your office floor.
The scheduler can group passengers together to get fewer stops, and longer express zones. Also, it makes double-deck elevators practical. Consider the elevators in the Willis Tower in Chicago. These are double-deck cabs, and it takes about three floors for the cab to accelerate to or decellerate from express speed and make a stop. Considering the number of people that system moves daily, it would be impossible to do without DD.
"Thank you for using SortTable from https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/. If you, the site owner, would like to use SortTable without this notice, please download the script from [here](URL link) and add it to your server."
If you want to get fancy you can serve the modified script only if it's being hot linked and the original script if it's being used on www.kryogenix.org - or another website that has permission to use the script.
I think this is a brilliant solution - you can also make it the second row in the table that's being sorted (right after the table header). That way there's no breakage and it's a good enough deterrent.
I would go on further and make a link to a Stripe Checkout page that allows you to purchase a license subscription to remove the notice.
"He would then set up the poles, string the line between them, and attach the harness. The C-47 would then come in low and slow, trailing a grappling hook. The hook would snag the line, lifting the harnessed operative off the ground and into the air behind the airplane, where he’d be winched on board."
And here's a written description with some photos. The photos include one of a C-47 about to do a pick up: https://www.ww2gp.org/gliderpickup/
It was the second one, The Dark Knight, when Batman captures the mob accountant in Hong Kong and returns him to Gotham. It would be a pretty memorable scene in any other movie, but just about everything got upstaged by Heath Ledger.
Thanks for the links! The technique with gliders was used to rescue the survivors of the "Gremlin Special" crash, in what is now the Indonesian province of Papua, in 1945.
It is also how banner-towing aircraft pick up new banners. As it involves a sudden increase in weight and drag while flying near the stall and near the ground, it has its risks.
Really cool!