Re: [mv] Netscape suckage and the history usertag

[cfm@maine.com]

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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:59:37AM -0500, Chris Rapier wrote:
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> 
> Hi, this is actually a resend but I'm still ruynning into the problem.
> Mike suggested a solution but unfortunately it won't work as it doesn't
> force and order *and* a page refresh which is what I need to accomplish.
> Anyway, the below is specific to netscape, under IE it works fine.
> 
> Victor Nolton wrote:
> > 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Victor Nolton <ven@pragakhan.com>     ******
> > 
> > I think in the past people just made the shopping cart in a hidden
> > frame. I admit I love the way ColumbiaHouse.com does it. they update
> > a small frame. it says how many items you have and what the last item
> > is you placed in the basket.
> 
> The problem is that I'm not using frames *and* I have a 'cart bar' on
> the top of the page which says how many items are in the basket and the
> total.  Anyway, I go things working mostly except two problems.
> 
> First how I do it... I have the orderpage set to no_basket. The
> no_basket.html page is
> [bounce href='[history-scan exclude="^/ord|^multi|^/process|^/basket"
> default=basket]']. 


Have you tried to write an order profile that sets the basket page 
to the current page complete with any necessary scan variables?  I'd
do it all in perl - not that its necessarily better; I just don't know
how to do it in MML.

"Reload" will be problematic, particularly if you are keeping an item
count separate.  That's a religious war  ;^)

> This automagically redirects the person to the last search page and
> refreshes it which is what I want. However there are two problems...
> 
> 1) If the user hits 'reload' then the search seems to be expired as the
> user is told that the page "expired.html" does not exist. This is
> problematic for me. 

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