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Digi-Key has changed and it is not very good

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David Hess:
Oh, I forgot about Microcenter.  We even have one local although I have never had parts delivered there for pickup.

radar_macgyver:
It seems at least on Firefox that scrolling is effed up on DK, it's like the 25 parts listed per page are in an iframe and scroll slightly on their own before the "container" scrolls.

duckduck:

--- Quote from: rfdes on October 10, 2020, 10:48:59 pm ---The clincher for me is  DigiKey's policy of FREE shipping if you mail them a check instead of charging.  They usually ship USPS but sometimes UPS.  I can order a single 0.10 resistor and get it shipped free.  The downside is that you have to wait for the mail service but that is typically not a big deal for me.

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Is this for real? I've been using Mouser because they offer the US$3.49 "Economy shipping". Delivery takes a while out to the Seattle area, but I'm cheap and electronics is a hobby. I also try to batch my purchases as much as possible.

I'm not a fan of writing checks since handing out my routing and account number is really asking for it. I keep a checking account in a separate bank for this sort of stuff.

EDIT:

It's true! Thanks for the tip, rfdes. From https://www.digikey.com/en/terms-and-conditions :


--- Quote ---When a check or money order accompanies your order, Digi-Key pays all shipping and insurance (our choice for method of shipping) to all addresses in the U.S. and Canada.
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Here's the mail-in order form: https://www.digikey.com/-/media/PDF/Help/Order%20Form/order-form_en-US.pdf?la=en

It's ironic that as a result of this thread I'm now going to be ordering from Digi-Key rather than Mouser.  ;D

EDIT EDIT:

Well, I ordered two fancy potentiometers for US$5.13 (the price of the potentiometers + local sales taxes). My order form and check was received by Digi-Key on Oct 20 and they shipped Fed-Ex which I received today (Oct 27). Free shipping. This is life-changing to me as an electronics hobbyist. Thanks, Digi-Key  :-+

This site was helpful for calculating the local sales tax: http://www.sale-tax.com

EDIT: updated order form URL

T3sl4co1l:

--- Quote from: radar_macgyver on October 12, 2020, 05:37:07 am ---It seems at least on Firefox that scrolling is effed up on DK, it's like the 25 parts listed per page are in an iframe and scroll slightly on their own before the "container" scrolls.

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Same on Chrome, it doesn't quite fit in its container and scrolls a few pixels.  Once set, the scroll event goes through to the lower level.

Tim

tooki:

--- Quote from: NANDBlog on October 11, 2020, 09:56:10 pm ---I lost it completely, when all these adafruit and sparkfun boards statrted showing up in the search results.

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What's wrong with Adafruit and Sparkfun? They make a lot of things that are handy for beginners, and especially outside of USA, they can be hard to get sometimes. Having access to them via DK is useful, and having them in DK's catalog doesn't somehow make other components less available!


--- Quote from: NANDBlog on October 11, 2020, 09:56:10 pm ---Oh don even let me get started on web development. So for the last two years, I cannot convince our software team, that dumb "let the computer decide" autoscaling on graphs is not good. We have vertical scales like "16.1 16.6 17.0 17.5" because how the data is, and rounding problems. And then we got this gift that keeps on giving, our new website designer. So this bliss, had the idea, that we will replace all fonts with this beautiful, corporate approved font. We have GPS coordinates, and complete excel sheet sized tables, that people work with. decided to use this unreadable font, that gave me complete dyslexia. It took us 3 months to convince her to only use these for the headlines.
Sometimes I thinkk we should just slap these designers back to the earth. We just want a usable, Web 1.0 website, that doesnt have like button and doesnt overwrite the scroll functionality. We dont need your creativity, we need a website. You can create a my little pony fanclub website on your own time, and be creative there.

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I couldn't agree more, and I've worked in web design. I am appalled at the direction web (and software) design has taken the past few years, with all the gains in screen size decimated by "airy" layouts that have microscopic amounts of information. Don't get me wrong, not everything in old-style websites was great, but damn…

When I bought my 24" 1920x1200 display in 2008, it gave me massive amounts of screen real estate, so I could easily open two documents side by side, or several web windows, and see plenty of content. Thanks to the dumb "whitespace" layouts of today, on the 27" 2560x1440 display I have now, I can see less content. Absolutely maddening, and IMHO disrespectful of the user. If I want extra space around your content, I'll make the window the size I want and put a blank background behind that window.

What I also hate about modern web technologies is how 99% of the time, they break the "back" functionality. In ages past, clicking "back" just took you right back, every time. Now, even on pages that aren't obviously dynamic, it usually plunks me back at the top of the page, rather than where I was scrolled to before. On dynamic pages like the Facebook timeline, "back" literally does not take you back to where you were, but to a new point in the timeline. The only modern, dynamic site that I have seen where "back" works 100% as it should is Twitter. I don't know how they did it, but they got it exactly, exactly right. They've managed to manipulate the browser history just so, and have their backend designed just so, that together, even with a page reload, you're right where you left off, at the same place in a dynamically loaded timeline. My hats off to them. Now if only I found Twitter itself to be useful...

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