This is an ecommerce site, where you can buy all sorts of ascii faces like (ノ・∀・)ノ and ¯_(ツ)_/¯, in a wide variety of font sizes. The homepage should display a list of products for people to browse.
A live demo can be found here.
- products are displayed in a grid.
- give the user an option to sort the products in ascending order. Can sort by "size", "price" or "id".
- each product has :
- a "size" field, which is the font-size (in pixels). We should display the faces in their correct size, to give customers a realistic impression of what they're buying.
- a "price" field, in cents. This should be formatted as dollars like
$3.51. - a "date" field, which is the date the product was added to the catalog. Dates should be displayed in relative time (eg. "3 days ago") unless they are older than 1 week, in which case the full date should be displayed.
- the product grid should automatically load more items as you scroll down.
- our product database is under high load due to growing demand for ascii, so please display an animated "loading..." message while the user waits.
- to improve the user's experience, we should always pre-emptively fetch the next batch of results in advance, making use of idle-time. But they still should not be displayed until the user has scrolled to the bottom of the product grid.
- when the user reaches the end and there are no more products to display, show the message "~ end of catalogue ~".
- after every 20 products we need to insert an advertisement from one of our sponsors. Use the same markup as the advertisement in the header, but make sure the
?rquery param is randomly generated each time an ad is displayed. - Ads should be randomly selected, but a user must never see the same ad twice in a row.