It's not a clearly inferior method. It may be better for padded images, but for unpadded images, the Table method can be better. By putting the border around the piece image, it avoids covering the piece with the border. One alternative to reducing the dimensions of the images would be to unpad them by cropping out surrounding white space, and it looks like showpiece.php can handle this.
It's not a clearly inferior method. It may be better for padded images, but for unpadded images, the Table method can be better. By putting the border around the piece image, it avoids covering the piece with the border. One alternative to reducing the dimensions of the images would be to unpad them by cropping out surrounding white space, and it looks like showpiece.php can handle this.