to visit the NXP (nee Philips) website. I am replacing a legacy part and needed the original datasheet for comparison purposes. It's not a website, it's marketdroid mental masturbation.
We've had these rants before, of course, but I'm getting to the point of writing an open letter to semi mfrs - on the lines of 'just give me the content'. There's a place for javascript (I like the way TI and OnSemi [for example] use it for the parameterisable lists), but don't make the entire website non-navigable without it; and don't make me use Flash.
I use FF2 with NoScript and nxp.com is not navigable at all unless I enable javascript and Flash (ugh).
I wrote them a nastygram (which will no doubt be ignored). It's a pretty website for the investors and an excuse when they start to go down the tubes "...but the website looks so nice with all those animations. It's not our fault nobody buys our products..." where in reality it _is_ their fault. Nobody buys the products because the website is not targeted at it's proper audience.
I made a final decision today to not bother looking for their parts any more - there's nothing they have I can't get elsewhere, especially in the original design stage where I can choose parts based on availability, functionality and decent documentation (another pet peeve).
ok - rant mode off (for now). We now return to our regular programming.
[X-posted]Cheers
PeteS