quote:Originally posted by Auctiva Tom T.:
3.) not much we can do about that. It's eBay way of doing things. A lot of the code for those pages comes from interfaces eBay gives us to display categories. Their categories are a huge amount of data because they are so large, and that is what takes the time of loading. You will notice that after you've used a category we store it in your favorites list so that you dont need to load the category page. Also you can write the category # down and enter that directly on the listing page and bypass the category picker page.
Just a thought.
Could it be possible for Auctiva to store all categories at Auctiva. Have a process interface with eBay to check if eBay makes any updates in the categories then update your local copy accordingly. That should reduce the two round trips to one.
Two Round Trips: eBay <---> Auctiva <---> Client Browser
One Round Trips: Auctiva <---> Client
Another thought, when categories downloaded, can it be cached on the client? If it was one file that's been included in the app and downloaded to the client, the browser might be able to check if the file has been updated on the server (Auctiva), if not, the local (cache) copy can then be used instead of take a copy from eBay/Auctiva every time.
Hope that makes sense.
