Thanks for the thoughts/reaction Spark,
I've decided to take the conventional approach, using XTML, CSS and
JavaScript. Too bad.
Joe Wilkins
It's not such a stupid thing - this is how (for example) Tesco
introduced
online shopping in the UK. People would install an application from
CD which
they would use to select their shopping list and then go online to
submit
and confirm the purchase and select the delivery timeslot. Each time
the
user went online, any updated items, special offers etc would be
downloaded
to the application and the shopping catalogue would be updated.
Since its
inception the general availability of broadband internet services
has made
it more convenient for both users and Tesco to do the whole shopping
process
online, but there's no reason why an offline "store/catalogue"
application
that submits the selection to an online order and payment processor
couldn't
be a workable thing, especially if the target market is limited in
broadband
availability.
It's true though, that generally users' perceptions would be that
it's "not
like" all the other online shops and may be resistant to installing
some
application for the purposes of "having you sell me stuff" - so the
development of a more "normal" online shopfront is probably the way
to go,
even so.
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