Re: [WebDNA] Re: shopping sites and the "old commerce tags"
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2012
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 108706
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texte = Donovan, the "WebCatalog" era is over. WebDNA is not a set of eCommerce =applications, but a language, a modern and flexible one, the only one in =the world (as far as i know) that includes its own powerful database =system. It is almost limitless in its interaction with webpages =server-side or even client-side, interweaving with html5, css or ajax. I =don't understand why you seem to be stuck with this old set of limited =applications. To me, WebDNA is much more than that...Sorry about the misuse of the term "deprecate", but i guess i made my =point anyway.- chrisOn Feb 25, 2012, at 10:56, Donovan Brooke wrote:> christophe.billiottet@webdna.us wrote:>> Exact, and we will not deprecate them, until everyone here agrees to =go forward: we will just undocument them, so newcomers will not be =trapped with these relics.>>=20>> - chris>=20>=20> Our entire language is a relic if you want to put it into those terms. =;-)>=20> Nobody I know is trapped with the commerce tags. Use them or don't use =them to your preference.. but why rewrite or deprecate the functions? =Why not improve them? If you don't like the orderfile, add an option =flag that uses WebDNA databases instead. They are both ram-resident flat =text files however, so it doesn't matter to me.>=20> Also, I'm not sure if you know what the term deprecate means Chris.. =undocumenting is just about the very definition of the term.>=20> Really, if Stuarts site was based off the commerce tags would that =make you like the commerce tags better?.. because there is no reason it =couldn't be.>=20> What is going to make you people realize that the commerce tags are =just fine and just need a little support to improve them?>=20> Yes, StoreBuilder is outdated, but people can still build a shopping =cart with options for taking payments in 5 minutes.. That is a system =which has had very little updates since before the millennium. It just =needs to be redone using CSS, WebDNA contexts as apposed to commands, =and some pretty Jquery and minimial other stuff and you'd have a =contemporary StoreBuilder.>=20> O.K., that's all I have to say on that... been up all night coding.>=20> Donovan>=20>=20>=20>=20>=20>=20> --=20> Donovan Brooke> Euca Design Center> www.euca.us>=20> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list
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Donovan, the "WebCatalog" era is over. WebDNA is not a set of eCommerce =applications, but a language, a modern and flexible one, the only one in =the world (as far as i know) that includes its own powerful database =system. It is almost limitless in its interaction with webpages =server-side or even client-side, interweaving with html5, css or ajax. I =don't understand why you seem to be stuck with this old set of limited =applications. To me, WebDNA is much more than that...Sorry about the misuse of the term "deprecate", but i guess i made my =point anyway.- chrisOn Feb 25, 2012, at 10:56, Donovan Brooke wrote:> christophe.billiottet@webdna.us wrote:>> Exact, and we will not deprecate them, until everyone here agrees to =go forward: we will just undocument them, so newcomers will not be =trapped with these relics.>>=20>> - chris>=20>=20> Our entire language is a relic if you want to put it into those terms. =;-)>=20> Nobody I know is trapped with the commerce tags. Use them or don't use =them to your preference.. but why rewrite or deprecate the functions? =Why not improve them? If you don't like the orderfile, add an option =flag that uses WebDNA databases instead. They are both ram-resident flat =text files however, so it doesn't matter to me.>=20> Also, I'm not sure if you know what the term deprecate means Chris.. =undocumenting is just about the very definition of the term.>=20> Really, if Stuarts site was based off the commerce tags would that =make you like the commerce tags better?.. because there is no reason it =couldn't be.>=20> What is going to make you people realize that the commerce tags are =just fine and just need a little support to improve them?>=20> Yes, StoreBuilder is outdated, but people can still build a shopping =cart with options for taking payments in 5 minutes.. That is a system =which has had very little updates since before the millennium. It just =needs to be redone using CSS, WebDNA contexts as apposed to commands, =and some pretty Jquery and minimial other stuff and you'd have a =contemporary StoreBuilder.>=20> O.K., that's all I have to say on that... been up all night coding.>=20> Donovan>=20>=20>=20>=20>=20>=20> --=20> Donovan Brooke> Euca Design Center> www.euca.us>=20> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us> Bug Reporting: support@webdna.us
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