Display a shopping cart grid on any page of the site?

[graphicz]

I have an instance of Norman's 'Add to cart dropdown' at https://www.graphicz.gb.net/sv2Kartdrop/

Having added something to the cart if you then hover over the cart icon in the header there is nearly a second delay while the

"<actinic:variable name="CartLinkText" /> table.table-cart"

loads.

Once loaded the dropdown is instant.

I have added a font-awesome spinner while the table is loading to improve the user experience but do not know how to add a preloader for the CartLinkText table to avoid this hiatus.

Grateful for any ideas or suggestioons

Thank you

[NormanRouxel]

This code works by loading the entire View Cart page (which is generated by Perl) and stripping out all but the bits you see.

If you do a pre-load that will involve a LOT of extra traffic and a large amount of Perl being executed on every page.

It's much more efficient to only display the popup cart when the customer requests it.

The spinner should let customers know that something is happening.

[Buzby]

Hi Jonathan,

The wait for me is perfectly acceptable.

Out of interest is this swift V2 and you have just added that mod, or is this your version with lots of mods?

[graphicz]

Thanks Jason, yes Swift V2 in 18,2 bvut with lots of my own eccentricities and additions!