eBay sucks my balls.
I’ve been working on a little auction feature to print active auctions to various pages on the site. They have built in tools for this but they produce HTML that wouldn’t only make baby Jesus smack around a kitten. Some four or five embedded tables to display something which could have been done with one table, and no CSS classes to target it well. Hopelessly massive JavaScript to produce it. And it totally breaks apart when it conflicts with a site’s style sheet. You’d have to include it to come out well at all…
It failed validation with 107 errors…
So I’ve found an RSS feed which I can feed data into. I’m creating a script that can be passed input. It will grab an RSS feed and parse it for all the information I need, placing it into an array. I’ll be able to call this script whenever I want to get raw data, which I can then put into a sexy CSS container.
I hate eBay more than ever, now. They took my Sunday away.
So is this what you had to do, LYS? I can see you’re not using eBay’s crappy tools…