Hello everyone, Will try to keep it simple.
I have much experience of working on various e-commerce systems and know the following: 1. Serious e-commerce systems are very complex (i.e. Magento) 2. 90% of e-commerce systems are not accessible, let alone standards compliant 3. Even templated UI solutions tend to require much work to 'clean up' - largely to do with complexity of the problem at hand 4. It takes a long time to develop a fully-featured, standards compliant e-commerce solution (usability aside) Magento is one of the best I have come by so far in terms of Open Source, but it's not standards compliant. Quick example why: checkout does not work with JS off and it uses in line JS to work. :-| Dirty, hacky and not necessarily good enough for some clients, although most tend not to care as long as it 'works'. Still today I am searching for an Open Source solution (or a cheap-ish one) that does the job nicely, but no luck so far after many hours invested into finding one. Standards wise the best one so far seems to be: http://www.tradingeye.com/ , but I haven't really thoroughly tried it yet. Whoever quotes $500 for developing a shopping cart is either just selling 'ideas' or does not have a first clue about what an e-commerce system is. Kindest regards, Jason PS: Oh yeah, how can I forget that automatically selling digital/downloadable products through the solution is (in my opinion) a must-have feature which Magento does not have and that functionality poses various other standards-related implementational issues with it. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:12 AM, tee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2008, at 7:00 PM, tee wrote: > >> >>> I'd been learning Magento since beta 1, guess I will add my 2 cents. >> Magento is very impressive, and you can make your magento store as compliant >> as it can be with its very flexible, a-bit-daunting template system. But to >> say magento is standards compliant is totally off-key in my opinion. The >> first template they came out, was very impressive for an open source, now, >> with each releases, many files got updated and you see inline styles, >> excessive use of div classes. I don't think Varien continues promoting >> Magento as Standards Compliant anymore. >> >> >> Also, forgot to add, accessible wise, it think it gets a minus point. > Turn the js off, many things are gone, so far the fatal accessible issue I > see is the category nav. In my theme, I try doing fly-out and I haven't > been able to get the tabbing works in second level. > > tee > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
