TI has wrecked their web site

It does in Firefox.

Go with the flow ... IE works as you would expect.. right or left click ... save as .. all there ... nothing weird. With approx. 90% using IE and sites written for IE why would you bother with anything else

Because IE is a piece of crap perhaps ?

Graham

If you have some control over buying a few million dollars of semis from them, tell them that you will take your business elsewhere if they do not clean up their act. And see if you can get others to do the same. Then move the boycott to the next seller etc untill they all are decent.

So is anyone with Firefox having a problem with this? Who is having a problem?

The trend among website designers in the past couple years is to replace URL's that directly give paths on a filesystem into dynamically-generated documents and links that access the documents through database links.

There are some website administrivia tasks that are made easier by this, but MOSTLY this is done because it raises website administration into the "ivory white tower with the database analyst" level again, ensuring their employment forever and a steady stream of $ to Oracle Inc.

Also, having a dynamically created Javascript thingy open up the PDF document lets you put a "frame" around the PDF with arrows to step you forward/back through catalog pages etc. This is not a completely useless feature, although it is frustrating at times.

(I would argue that a filesystem is a database, but all the Oracle junkies will just hate me more.)

Yeah, my shorts are too tight and Oracle DBA's pissed me off big time yesterday!

Tim.

I like the way Mouser does their catalog, eg:

Each page is a PDF and there is a BACK and NEXT button at the top and bottom of each page. Maybe others will copy that.

The worst are the idiot numbskulls who put a fixed size tiny frame around a PDF, making most of your monitor area totally useless (unless you are a wretch in some 3rd-world country trying to use a flickering old 800x600 display to do engineering work).

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Note for many Linux users:

If you set up more screen modes in SAX2 you can use CTRL-ALT plus and minus to step through them. It can be very handy in this case as a quick zoom in and out.

Big but with crappy resolution? What use is that?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Because it's a virus magnet?

John

Hello Robert,

Been there with European companies, tried that, didn't work. Most large companies do not listen. It wasn't just about their sub-par web sites but also about terrible or no customer support. And I did not simply shoot off an email but wrote polite letters to the CEOs.

Consequently my design-in rate for their stuff went from about 30% to almost zero. That is millions in lost sales. Thing is, when one of those companies runs into difficulties (which some did and others will) they won't even know what hit them.

Classic executive management problem. In the same way that the big three automakers failed to realize what they should have designed, now that it is almost too late. I mean, every newspaper in town kind of told them. Yet they did not listen.

Regards, Joerg

For sure. I haven't owned an American auto-maker product for just shy of 30 years.

Whenever possible I don't even rent that crap when I'm traveling.

...Jim Thompson

You don't even rent them? Man, you're missing out. While I'm a Toyota and Nissan fan, it sure is fun to floor the gas when renting a Chevy at Alamo. The best part is, I won't be stuck with the maintenance. :)

I'd be afraid I'd blow an engine and be stuck somewhere.

Plus flooring it gets you into trouble... the other day, while my Q45 was in for service, they gave me a G35 to drive.

Saw a clear section of highway, floored it, and got tagged for 79 in a

Cost me $120 and all day in a very boring "Defensive Driving School" :-(

By the way, I've always been an Alamo customer, until recently. But I've found that Enterprise treats you like a human, cuts lots of time out of the process, meets you as you get off the airport-rental-car bus, hands you a bottle of water, walks you to your car, one signature, and you're gone... inexpensive too.

Plus Alamo has become fond of hiring people who have English as their

...Jim Thompson

Er, I'd meant flooring it to the speed limit. That's what I do on the rentals... "How Quickly Can I Accelerate From Zero to 45 Miles Per Hour?" Ah, the G-forces... does makes me wonder, though, if the tires are properly inflated and balanced. ;)

Coincidentally... at my work, they've recently (just this morning) implemented a new policy where Enterprise is now the only allowed rental company. Before, we were given a choice... I just liked Alamo.

I stayed with Alamo for a very long time because I had a special deal... my youngest son, the perpetual student with all the degrees, worked at Alamo to support himself through school. He had reached local Phoenix management status by the time he graduated.

...Jim Thompson

I haven't been to LAX in quite a while. I tend to use Ontario, John Wayne or San Diego.

Most places are going to a central rental location with the airport providing a BIG bus to get you there quickly... ala San Jose, and now Phoenix with a huge facility.

...Jim Thompson

And not enough of them. They seem to have about 1/10 the frequency of shuttle buses of some of their competitors at LAX. One tends to remember that sort of thing.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I hate it. It's better than some, but PDF isn't a good solution. It's a fixed page layout,

Fixed page layouts are insane. Computer screens are not paper. Say I've got a pagefull of transistors on a PDF, with a table of Hfe, ... If I'm looking for specific properties, I've got no choice but to go down the list cross-checking several things. I can't just click on the price then vce columns to give me a list sorted by voltage and then price.

I can't get it to show me parts only in stock, or increase the text size if I'm using a portable laptop.

It's not possible to support a nice shopping cart type functionality, ...

Worst catalog.

Now, navigate to batteries. This is the worst of all worlds - it's almost impossible to find things.