Thread: implications in using a drag and drop cart

I have been thinking about adding a drag and drop cart using either jquery or scriptapulous. What are the implications of this if any?

Implications from a Technical or User-Experience perspective?

both. ....

From a technical perspective, I'd recommend JQuery, which is also our chosen javascript framework, and will be included in all future versions. The implementation won't be trivial, as we don't have any baked-in webservices to Add-to-Cart; you'll have to create them.

From a shoppers perspective, just because you *can* do something doesn't mean it's a good idea. IMHO, I dislike dragging/dropping objects on a web page, and would be inclined to leave your store if you gave me that interface. But that's just my opinion.

Also, note that the big players, Amazon, etc (who have huge marketing budgets, and perform A/B analyses to test these interfaces) have choosen not to use drag/drop on their sites.