Re: [mv] Netscape suckage and the history usertag

[Brian <brianmac@brimac.com>]

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I just tried doing as you suggested, selected an item ( number of items
was updated when page re-displayed after I hit the 'add to cart' icon),
I selected another item, added it to the cart and the number of items
again showed correctly.  I then hit the reload button on my Netscape
4.75 browser and it again showed the correct info on the merchandise
page, did NOT go to a different page from where I was when I hit reload.

Either you've fixed the problem right before I checked it, or the
problem does not show up using this version of Netscape.

If it helps any, I was on the Beverages - Spritzers page.


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:49:22 -0500
Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu> wrote:

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Chris> 
Chris> 
Chris> 
Chris> cfm@maine.com wrote:
Chris> 
Chris> > I must have missed something in this thread.  Seems to me there is a lot
Chris> > assumed.  Reloading, page caching, and putting orders into the basket
Chris> > without visiting the basket page stikes me as a wild mix.  I'd be curious
Chris> > to see a short statement of the result you want.
Chris> 
Chris> My clients have a site where they sell groceries. They want to allow
Chris> people to order something without having to side track to the basket
Chris> page. The theory is that if they don't have to bounce back and forth
Chris> they'll end up purchasing more and quantity is the key for this site.
Chris> Now, since they aren't going to the basket page some indication of what
Chris> is in their current cart is needed. So at the top of the page a small
Chris> bar is displayed with the number of item and the current total. In order
Chris> for this to be updated the page has to be refreshed as the designer
Chris> isn't going to use popup windows or frames. 
Chris> 
Chris> You can see the site at www.windfallfoods.com. If you are using netscape
Chris> add something to the cart, hit the reload button, and then try to add
Chris> something else. You'll end up at the basket.html page but if you look at
Chris> the URL you'll see it says 'expired'. I ended up making a link between
Chris> the basket.html page and one called expired.html so people wouldn't see
Chris> an error. If you go back to the results page you'll see the subcategory
Chris> heading is also truncated. If you do the same thing under IE you'll see
Chris> no problems at all. :\
Chris> 
Chris> Mostly, at this point, I'm curious as to why this works under IE and not
Chris> under Netscape. I tried switching the order operation from POST to GET
Chris> but it was still failing in the same way. 
Chris> 
Chris> I'm going to rip apart the history tag to see if that might be doing
Chris> anything.
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