eBay and eBay Item Descriptions

[dybomaha]

I am working on a large project for an eBay related company - so I am very interested in the eBay simple listing tool shown in the demos.

My question about the demo is this - how will the HTML aspect be handled? The video of the demo is in a very small screen - but I can see the image upload and the resulting eBay listing preview.

I can understand how most of the application would work, but when it comes to HTML editing, there would be a small problem in that Laszlo does not seem to have a rich text editor (yet).

Also, when HTML is pulled from the eBay web site, how is it displayed?

DYBOMAHA

[antun]

... Laszlo does not seem to have a rich text editor (yet).

Right - you could use an inputtext box to determine what the user had selected and add HTML tags to it. It wouldn't be a fully-rich editor, but you'd have the functionality to (say) select some text then click the bold button to bold it.

Also, when HTML is pulled from the eBay web site, how is it displayed?

Again, Laszlo can display basic HTML. If you went with the idea of having standard layouts for the HTML pages, you could render the text on the client. Now if you had some arbitrary HTML that you wanted to display, the best thing would be to have it preview in a new browser window.

Take care,

Antun

[dybomaha]

Thanks Antun,

I am really getting used to Laszlo. I did a thorough comparison between Laszlo and Flex and I think we are committed to Laszlo at this point.

DYBOMAHA