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Subject:	Re: What's with Brickbay
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping
Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:56:19 GMT
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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. So I grin and bear it. 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. 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. Plus Dan responds to suggestions very quickly. It may help that I'm a good customer, I've bought 1K USD worth of parts from various vendors already. FWIW, I use BrickBay just fine from an NT 4 (SP 6)box running NS 4.7 and IE 5.0 as well as from a Win 95 box running NS 4.5 What is your setup? Maybe we need to take this to off-topic.geek? I dunno. ++Lar

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		Re: What's with Brickbay
(...) 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)

		Re: What's with Brickbay
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)

		Re: What's with Brickbay
(...) 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)

		Re: What's with Brickbay
(...) 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)

		Re: What's with Brickbay
(...) 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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		What's with Brickbay
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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