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texte = This is one of two or three more emails I have to write, so if you don't like my opinions, you may want to stop reading now...For those of you who are left, The first thing that probably needs to change to stay current in the field of E-commerce is the use of cookies to pass cart values. As much as I haven't been a fan of cookies, there is a use for them, and most people whose browsers are capable have learned that they need to accept cookies from shoppable sites if they want to shop. In ways, it has become a defacto standard.Although WebCatalog has a cookie mechanism built in, I think It could be vastly improved to help facilitate using carts.As far as I can tell, There are three ways to pass a cart value 2 are in a URL ....?cart=[cart] ....&cart=[cart] 1 in hidden inputs Therefor we need three newish cart tags: [&cart] [?cart] [input-cart] these would all look for the presence of a cart in a cookie named cart and hide themselves if their presence was not needed, and they would fill in just like the above examples if a browser failed to send back a cart value, but WebCatalog would be programmed (possibly with a user selectable setting to turn this off?) to attempt to set a cookie with the current cart on any page request that didn't include the cart cookie. Also, if WebCatalog detects a cookie named cart, it uses that value automatically for all cart tags that may be needed on that page. Now I can hear some of you saying just set the cookie on the first page, and forget about passing carts but that won't work, and you have to have a cart link for every link for the older browsers.This will facilitate the elimination of dropped carts for browsers that support cookies (like you've never created a link and forgot the cart tag!), as well as helping recall the contents of a cart if a shopper returns in a few hours (or from the non-shopping part of a site). (or if they reload the home page (without the cart in the URL) etc, etc... Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department --------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.comAre you a Web Programmer? I am today.
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This is one of two or three more emails I have to write, so if you don't like my opinions, you may want to stop reading now...For those of you who are left, The first thing that probably needs to change to stay current in the field of E-commerce is the use of cookies to pass cart values. As much as I haven't been a fan of cookies, there is a use for them, and most people whose browsers are capable have learned that they need to accept cookies from shoppable sites if they want to shop. In ways, it has become a defacto standard.Although WebCatalog has a cookie mechanism built in, I think It could be vastly improved to help facilitate using carts.As far as I can tell, There are three ways to pass a cart value 2 are in a URL ....?cart=[cart] ....&cart=[cart] 1 in hidden inputs [cart]>Therefor we need three newish cart tags: [&cart] [?cart] [input-cart] these would all look for the presence of a cart in a cookie named cart and hide themselves if their presence was not needed, and they would fill in just like the above examples if a browser failed to send back a cart value, but WebCatalog would be programmed (possibly with a user selectable setting to turn this off?) to attempt to set a cookie with the current cart on any page request that didn't include the cart cookie. Also, if WebCatalog detects a cookie named cart, it uses that value automatically for all cart tags that may be needed on that page. Now I can hear some of you saying just set the cookie on the first page, and forget about passing carts but that won't work, and you have to have a cart link for every link for the older browsers.This will facilitate the elimination of dropped carts for browsers that support cookies (like you've never created a link and forgot the cart tag!), as well as helping recall the contents of a cart if a shopper returns in a few hours (or from the non-shopping part of a site). (or if they reload the home page (without the cart in the URL) etc, etc... Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department --------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.comAre you a Web Programmer? I am today.
Brian B. Burton
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