| 11 Oct 2017 |
 @danhunsaker:matrix.org | 😄 | 03:57:09 |
 Pirates | How far did you get? | 03:59:08 |
| Pirates | danhunsaker: I'm half-tempted to steal your idea, because I'm seriously hating the ecommerce world right now. | 04:00:36 |
| Pirates | Ugh. Why do some websites think it's a good idea to replace their dropdowns with things that look like them but aren't‽ | 04:07:21 |
| * Pirates pulls out a bolter and gets ready to smite some heresy. | 04:07:39 |
| Pirates | Sure, for people using normal Firefox, there's usually no problem with pseudo-dropdowns. | 04:08:21 |
| Pirates | But for people using something like Conkeror, where keyboard is king? Those pseudo-dropdowns don't get recognized as input fields. | 04:08:46 |
| Pirates | I can't tab into them, I can't hit f for link-and-field-hinting and enter them, and if I click to open them? They still don't count as fields, so typing gets caught by my normal keybinds and does silly things like reloading the page—which contains an incomplete form. | 04:10:15 |
| Pirates | If I expand an actual dropdown, I can type or and jump to Oregon. If I click on a pseudo-dropdown and type or, o gets ignored, then r reloads the page. And then I reach for my damn bolter. | 04:11:29 |
| Pirates | danhunsaker: Have I introduced you to the bolter yet? | 04:12:07 |
| Pirates | Bolter, or Boltgun: high caliber gyrojet weapon typically delivering a mass-reactive explosive payload. | 04:21:41 |
| Pirates | Also known as the most OP handgun in all of fiction. | 04:21:49 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | Oh, I dunno. There was a pellet-projectile rail gun in one story I read that could disintegrate people and walls with similar ease. | 04:35:19 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | I didn't get too far with the e-commerce stuff. I was working with PHP at the time, so theleague/omnipay already handled the payment processing aspect, leaving that already modular and able to support various processors, even side-by-side. | 04:36:54 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | So all I had to do from there was design the other parts of the suite, and how they would interact with each other. | 04:38:45 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | Aaaaand, that's about where I got pulled into a different project. | 04:40:34 |
| Pirates | Fair. If you reach the level of handheld railguns, you win. | 04:40:43 |
| Pirates | Might still crib your idea, though. | 04:41:41 |
| Pirates | The amount of hate I feel for existing ecommerce solutions is only measured by boltshells to their faces. | 04:43:18 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | If I can find my notes... Which is assuming they're not solely in my head... I'll let you on as a collaborator on mine, if you want. | 04:44:06 |
| Pirates | Sweet. | 04:49:30 |
| Pirates | Except... PHP... | 04:49:37 |
| * Pirates was planning to rebuild the idea in Clojure. | 04:50:28 |
| Pirates | Or maybe Chicken. But probably Clojure. | 04:50:50 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | Hmm. | 04:53:02 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | I'll see about an organization to collect the implementations. | 04:58:22 |
| * Pirates doesn't fully trust PHP. | 04:59:37 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | I know. | 04:59:47 |
| @danhunsaker:matrix.org | Like I say, 7 is nearly a whole new language. | 05:00:02 |
| Pirates | I've heard that... | 05:00:12 |
