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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good
wizard69:
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--- Quote from: KE5FX on October 10, 2020, 11:18:17 pm ---They certainly haven't improved things with the recent "Whitespace everywhere, moar whitespace, yo guys, crank up the whitespace" facelift, but I wouldn't say it's horribly broken.
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Hey John,
I believe the rules for modern web dev can be described as follows:
1. There can never be too much whitespace
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I actually like white space. Some web sites are just so congested I find them unusable, Newark for example.
--- Quote ---2. There is no feature of HTML that can't be re-implemented by including a 73MB JS library
3. Under no circumstances should your site work correctly with the back arrow
4. Scolling must be implemented using JS that calls the slowest possible web process for data
5. Videos should always be autoplay and have their volume turn on
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Of all the web sins listed above the use of auto playing video is perhaps the most infuriating. Frankly I'd love to see a browser that runs off this abomination. Which brings up a question for everyone, is this a possibility on any web browser?
--- Quote ---6. Your layout must work on the latest iPhone but doesn't need to support increasing font sizes on the desktop
7. See rule 1
It's probably controversial but I believe that if the answer is JavaScript then the question must have been bloody stupid.
TonyG
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I see this constantly on all sorts of updated web sites. tons of bloody Javascript that slows everything down and makes for a site that really doesn't work any better than the old and often a lot worse.
james_s:
--- Quote from: wizard69 on November 26, 2020, 04:16:29 am ---I actually like white space. Some web sites are just so congested I find them unusable, Newark for example.
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I just looked at Newark and I think the issue is not a lack of white space, but the fact that the background is all white everywhere. Adding acres of white space is not the solution, adding a bit of gray to the background with different shades to separate groups of related items from each other is. For about the last 5 years the trend has been to have everything just floating in a vast sea of stark white background, web and applications too. Then instead of bringing back sensible design they come up with "dark mode" that just flips the situation to have everything floating loose in a sea of black. Then they add more and more empty space between everything. Pixels are expensive and always in short supply, it pisses me off when software and websites consume massive amounts gratuitously.
I should be able to fit as much or more information on my screen than I could 10-15 years ago when resolutions were lower but I can't.
Don't even get me started on autoplay video, I'd like to lynch whoever decided that was a good idea. It makes sense on sites like youtube where you go there *to watch video* but I loathe having video start playing with blaring audio, especially news sites where you close the video window and it pops up again whenever you navigate. There is a plugin I have in Brave (Chrome based) called Disable HTML5 Autoplay, that fixes it for me.
obuone:
True. Check this glitch. Every time you click anywhere on the parametric bar it creates new "Voltage Offset" window.... What happened to you Digi
Mark19960:
--- Quote from: dr.diesel on November 26, 2020, 01:42:02 am ---
--- Quote from: ataradov on November 26, 2020, 01:38:51 am ---my last order went to Mouser and another one will be coming up after the holidays. But I'm a small fish, DK would not care.
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I'm small as well, $20kish/year, but I have also switched to Mouser.
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I have started to move in this direction myself. It didn't help them when their website decided to remove all of the items from my basket. :palm:
My prediction is that Mouser will follow them and do the same thing themselves.
Everyone wants to be Amazon and I want to be certain I am buying from Digi-Key and ONLY Digi-Key.
tooki:
Regarding it losing your whole cart: any chance you accidentally made a new cart? DK lets you save and change between carts, and if you use some features (like adding a BOM to your cart) it offers to put it into a new cart by default. (The old one is saved and can be accessed from the cart manager.) But at first glance one will think the old cart was obliterated.
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