Hello, 1998 called, they want their website back - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2015, 11:02:02 pm
content: This has to be a joke...http://218.210.127.131/Default.aspxThat's a PC chip/ASIC vendor right there.Best viewed on a 800x600 monitor with Internet Explorer 6.0The part that really got me was this:Quote

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2015, 11:07:03 pm
content: I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks that, other than that they tend to handle high resolutions better (sometimes), 'modern' web sites don't really look any better.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2015, 11:29:28 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on July 29, 2015, 11:07:03 pmHonestly just visit the site and try to download a driver. It doesn't just look like something from 1998.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2015, 11:35:48 pm
content: Works for me

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2015, 11:50:49 pm
content: Some companies rent dedicated servers or virtual servers in China or Hong Kong or Taiwan, and because it's close to them (same country or region) they get fast speeds and everything looks good for them when they try to access their wesites.However, lots of ISPs in that region use cheap providers of bandwidth to move data across the oceans (Cogent, Tata etc) which means big latencies and saturated links and to top that off they oversell the external bandwidth to their clients. That's how some people download with very slow speeds from such websites.My perfect example for such a case was C-Media, their website was in Taiwan and a few years ago, the download speeds from their servers were in the range of 2-5 KB/s.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2015, 11:53:47 pm
content: QuoteSo?Designed for phones and tablets perhaps? Also:QuoteThe page source code is clearly auto-generated, horrible and never been touched by human hands, so that's in the modern fashion at least.Personally for my taste the appearance is still too complicated, since it has a pointless Flash animation.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 12:00:16 am
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on July 29, 2015, 11:53:47 pmI just figure I've lost the battle against pointless animations.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 12:06:51 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on July 29, 2015, 11:35:48 pmSame here for once. Previously I've been lucky if I got 5kb/s downloads and I've never had a slow connection.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 12:18:41 am
content: What are you talking about, IE6 was released in 2001, so can't be 1998!

author: Stephen Durr
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 12:39:23 am
content: and ASP.NET was released in 2002

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 02:11:16 am
content: I agree it looks a little dated but whatever works. If I'm looking for drivers or support documentation, I don't want any BS, I just want to download the file. No need to fix something that isn't broken.

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 02:17:12 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on July 30, 2015, 02:11:16 amQFTNo need fancy bloated script infected web page that made a browser crawl even at high end desktop machine, which I really hate.

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 04:50:20 pm
content: It does look a bit old fashioned, but it looks nice and readable, and easy to navigate.Not sure about that flash though.

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 05:04:14 pm
content: Quote from: Stephen Durr on July 30, 2015, 12:39:23 amQuote from: EEVblog on July 30, 2015, 12:18:41 amMinor updatesBet you this conversation happened in 2002:- "Hey if we use ASP.NET in the entire website I can get you that drivers download page you needed with the terms and conditions checkbox and stuff"- "Well okay, but it has to look the same!"- "While we are at it, we can do some radical Macromedia Flash slideshows with our latest tech"- "Oooh that will look so professional, okay okay, but make sure you have LCD monitors and kids. THE REST STAYS THE SAME!"

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2015, 06:54:13 pm
content: Interesting that you ended up there via direct IP address instead ofhttp://www.realtek.com/The copyright date is probably dynamically populated.

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2015, 01:54:08 pm
content: I have no idea how I got there. Probably some tech forum.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2015, 02:02:36 pm
content: Quote from: bitseeker on July 30, 2015, 06:54:13 pmI can imagine nmap was involved lol

author: krish2487
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2015, 06:11:50 pm
content: But still a lot moreutilitarian and functionalthanhttp://www.analog.com/en/index.htmlorhttp://www.linear.com/orhttp://www.microchip.com/orhttp://www.atmel.com/Information overload anyone!!!I d take the realtek anyday over any of the "new age" useless, time-wasting, pointless POS websites anyday!!!

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 02, 2015, 04:41:12 pm
content: Hey at least those are centeredThe Analog Devices one is one I really dislike. On a 1600x900 screen it is taking the entire width of the monitor and that is very awkward. And even with 900+ pixels worth of height, there is no content whatsoever in sight.Linear is great, although the background could be less cluttered.Microchip is good, as well as Atmel.