[clug] ebay

Tomasz Ciolek tmc at vandradlabs.com.au
Mon Sep 18 02:57:22 GMT 2006


 I have not had any problems either.

 AFAIK ebay has posted up a "new and improved" javascript based GUI for
 selling of stuff... 

 Therew is a link in there that says "use old interface" - use that. It
 works better.
 
 Tomasz
 
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:23:17PM +1000, Mathew Meins wrote:
> On 18/9/06 11:59 AM, "Kim Holburn" <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
> 
> > As a rule I try and keep away from ebay but there you go, sometimes
> > you want to do something and the simplest way is to use ebay ;-(
> > 
> > I was trying to sell something on ebay, first time ever for that, and
> > I hit a snag.  I couldn't upload an image of it.  I emailed ebay and
> > got back a letter saying among other things:
> > 
> >> Most likely the problem is browser issues. The site is optimised to
> >> run
> >> on Internet Explorer 6.
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately if you are using older and/or different browsers, our
> >> site
> >> is generally unusable. This is due to the fact that many of the forms
> >> and navigation use more advanced web language (HTML 4.0, JAVA, etc..).
> >> The only advice we can suggest, is to either try to see if you can get
> >> an update of the software you are using, or perhaps use another system
> >> that has more advanced browser capabilities.
> > 
> > 
> > Grrrr....
> 
> I've sold a few things on eBay, and I can't say I ever had any trouble with
> Firefox under running under Ubuntu.
> 
> 
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