[ic] Netscape 4.7 and Interchange

Sat Nov 10 07:47:00 2001

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:35:58PM -0600, Jason Balicki wrote:
> Ed LaFrance wrote:
> > Yes, now I see it - in Netscape, if you don't type a quantity into the qty
> > text field before clicking the buy button, nothing goes in the cart. In IE,
> > an qty of one is put in the cart.
> > 
> > This has somehting to do with the code for the "Buy List" feature, I am
> > fairly certain, and in any case others have come across this - I remember
> > seeing it on this list.
> > 
> > A quick-and-dirty fix would be to edit results.html so that the input for
> > quantity has a default of '1'.
> 
> This should be in the FAQ.  I'm only replying to this
> to help folks in the future find things in the archives.
> 
> There is no way to make Netscape 4.x behave sanely.  I've
> tried, others have tried, and failed.  I don't have access
> to IE at the moment, can anyone verify that the changes
> that Ed describes will help Netscape users and not hinder
> IE users?

This is probably a page specific issue and more likely has something
to do with your code.  The default quantity for an order link is
1; I'm pretty sure there is no default quantity for posts.  Is it
different for IE and Netscape?  Javascript or some such?

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