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| | | What's with Brickbay? I have been totally unable to use it at home. Every time I click on a category in someone's shop, that Internet Explorer window hangs and I have to ctrl-alt delete to recover (though other windows continue to work, though (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) I'm kinda anti-javascript, anti .asp myself, see past rants all over Lugnet and elsewhere about this topic. But BrickBay functionality would be VERY hard to achieve without it by a hobbyist (you'd need something like a IBM WebSphere/Bea (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) Yea, I accept it, but I'll still complain every once in a while (another pet peeve here is that brickshelf uses Javascript to do a redirect when you use a menmonic URL instead of the folder/picture number URL, no reason why it can't do the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Ok, I need some serious help here. I just tried both out NT terminal server and our Linux box. The NT terminal server is running NS 4.05, the Linux box is running NS 4.72. Both get the same results: I can look at a vendor's listing, I can add (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —John York
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| | | | | Everything works great for me and I'm running Redhat Linux 6.2 on my laptop. It also worked great for me from Win98. I keep thinking I should offer help to you guys with all the programming. I just finished writing my companies entire e-commerce and (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Here here! I haven't even sold anything on Brickbay yet (will tomorrow tho <g>) and I'm already amazed at it. (...) Ditto to that. I just noticed a "storewide percentage off sale" feature that I (and maybe others) mentioned to Dan just once a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Dan Jezek
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| | | | | (...) I started to write the storefronts in ASP eliminating all Javascript but then realized that Javascript has many advantages. For one, it is much much faster for the user to browse items in the shop and add items to their shopping cart. Another (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) YES! Awesome feature, Dan. Thanks for implementing this. (...) Ooooo - sounds nice. I'm assuming either Excel or some comma deliminated format? (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) CSV is a lingua franca of information transfer so I recommend it. eXcel gives you vendor lock and more bulk in the file and not much else. ++Lar (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —John York
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| | | | | | Of course XML would be ideal for data transfer! Easy to do in java, but also doable in perl or C! Not sure how easy it would be to do with ASP, but I'm sure microsoft has some way to support it. John (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) sure (...) 2 years from now I will agree with that. And there ARE parsers out there. But my company makes a pretty penny helping big orgs deal with XML data interfaces. It's not yet easy. eXcel does not ship with an XML importer/exporter, for (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | (...) The minimum you need is a text editor. The Ebay bulk upload interface is text with markup (XML if you want to apply the term loosely.) Like this: <FREEBAY_ITEM> <FREEBAY_TITLE>Cool Mustard Sculptures</FREEBAY_TITLE> (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Dan Jezek
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| | | | (...) I understand your dislike of Javascript since it depends on what browser you're using but what do you have against ASP? It's strictly a server-side language that doesn't affect you as the client at all. What's bad about ASP that's OK with .CFM (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Compared to .PL and .CGI? It's MS proprietary. Other than that it's fine. ++Lar (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —John York
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| | | | (...) Besides, who wants to support Microsoft if they don't have to! I just finished creating a new architecture for my companies website using Java Servlets, XML and XSLT. The nice thing about XML and XSLT is that they are both standardized, so you (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: What's with Brickbay —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) standardized, (...) Well, yes and no. This is a big topic, FUT to off-topic.geek. A few random points (spoken as a big XML fan who nevertheless has some reality awareness) XML itself is a standard, true, but most implementations that use it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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