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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Frank Filz writes:
> > What's with Brickbay? I have been totally unable to use it at home.
>
> 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 WebLogic/Mercator Web
> Broker installation on a server box you controlled, or you'd need Todd to
> actually realise more of his vision for a multi person commerce site so you
> could do it from LUGNET). So Javascript/ASP is the only game in town till more
> ISPs allow server side programming.
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 advantage of having a client-side shopping cart is that it doesn't
have to store the shopping cart contents in the database thus saving storage.
It also saves bandwith. It saves hits against the database and also
eliminates a bunch of other issues - buying from multiple shops at the same
time and having to "clean up" the shopping cart contents from people who put
stuff into their cart and never checked out. So the more Javascript, the
better. I haven't heard a complaint about this yet up till now.
> Get your browser working, it's worth it. BrickBay is awesome, Dan Jezek is
> wicked fast (1-1.5 orders of magnitude faster than Todd, I'd say, based on
> feature accretion rates, although we'll see how well architected it is a year
> from now) and it's getting better EVERY DAY. That's not just marketing hype,
> every day I find something Dan just added.
Today's new feature is private sales that someone suggested a while ago. Make
your inventory unavailable, specify a shop password and only let those people
buy that you want.
All of those features that were added were suggestions from other folks from
the time that the site started. If anyone has anything they want to add, just
let me know and I'd be happy to implement it. Right now it's probably going
to be a mass upload of inventory/wanted list that 3 people suggested.
> Todd better watch out, he's about
> to lose first mover in this space, if he ever had it... Dan's site is a
> serious threat and gaining fast.
If Todd wants to design something better then more power to him.
It would be only a benefit to the community.
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