The site looks really good, Brandon... and yes, that was a 20-pack of WD 250 GB drives. I thought maybe the site was in demo or debugging mode and someone was playing around with the prices!
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brandon > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:01 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Ebyte.com now using JQuery > > > Because our site is so dynamic, and the whole shopping cart does a lot > of backend ajax calls, we were having some serious issues with > prototype locking up browsers and causing lost sales. We started > getting curious about jQuery a while ago but it wasn't until recently > that we really looked into it and started playing with it and realized > how stable it was as well as flexible with all of the plugins. The > documentation was also a big help... prototype's documentation is a > real horror show. But long story short, once we got our hands dirty, > we realized how easy (relatively) it would be to rework our regular js > code with the help of the jQuery API and reduce the overall size of > our code and help improve the overall site speed too. Lots of good > came from it. > > > On Oct 29, 5:58 pm, polyrhythmic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Awesome to hear another success story. Very clean site, easy to use. > > No 6GB microSD cards, but some great hard drive prices! > > I'm curious to hear, how did jQuery's 'flexibility and compatibility' > > inspire your conversion? > > > > Charles > > > > On Oct 29, 11:42 am, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Just wanted to let everyone know that we just released version 2 of > > > Ebyte.com, and with it was a complete overhaul of our backend > > > framework. It took us about a month, but we successfully migrated from > > > prototype and script.aculo.us to jquery, improving the flexibility and > > > compatibility of the site, and reducing the size of each page by about > > > 40k. > > > > > We just wanted to give a shout out the jquery developers for creating > > > such a wonderful framework. Keep up the good work!
