I am not familiar with this technique, but a problem could be that it is not just about positioning the images, but also about translating mouse clicks to cell coordinates. (Which must also work for empty cells, for entering non-captures.) In the table version I have attached event handlers to the cells for this.
With grid, you would use a <div> tag instead of a <td> tag for each space, and you could attach event handlers to it just as easily. What I have done in Game Courier, though, is place a transparent image over each empty space, as I have attached event handlers to the piece images.
With grid, you would use a
<div>tag instead of a<td>tag for each space, and you could attach event handlers to it just as easily. What I have done in Game Courier, though, is place a transparent image over each empty space, as I have attached event handlers to the piece images.