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by theandrewbailey
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- Back when this was making the rounds several years ago, I was intrigued that they request pages in the background on mouse-over, then swap on click. I decided to do similar on my blog, since my pages are about a dozen kb of HTML, and I aggressively cache things. My blog now feels super fast to navigate through, since I've eliminated a ton of network lag.
https://theandrewbailey.com/
- I was there, Gandalf, thirty years ago when they formed their first website...
Which was little more than scans of their catalog pages, and some fields. Really. Instead of getting all excited about the latest web tech, they took their gigantic catalog and more-or-less scanned it in (well, used source files, but still...).
McMaster-Carr has always been an amazing company. I was once in the field, and ordered a $5,000 part from a key supplier and a $30 box of screws from McMaster-Carr. The other supplier charged extra for shipping, and sent it two days later to my company instead of my location as specified. McMaster-Carr overnighted the screws without being asked to do so.
- Built with asp.net and jQuery. Nowadays, it would probably be some React monstrosity that takes 30s to load and only shows one item per page (when did information density become evil?).
- Note they have CAD files for almost all of their products which - in combination with a 3D printer - can come in very handy.
- My father is a metalworker and I grew up with stacks of their encyclopedias all over my house. Was always amazed the sheer amount of stuff in them, probably saved a few trees with their website.
- I've been a big fan of theirs for a long time. I used to sit and browse their huge printed catalog in my spare time just to discover more parts to consider for use in my builds.
- On my browser the screen jumps around while vertically scrolling on the McMaster homepage. It's not all rainbows and sunshine.
- You need to enable JavaScript.
- i live in the area and this place is one of the most toxic workplaces to have ever existed.
- https://www.barnstormers.com/
Wana buy a bolt?(aircraft), or a fighter jet?
It's been stable since the internet.
It needs a few scripts for total functionality, but you can look at everything on site with just plain html, and it's fast.Internal search is good.And random external searches for aircraft stuff will land you there.
- Imagine an alternate universe where Amazon has a similar interface. It would be the most amazing tool.
- [2022]
- love metalwork & buy parts but seriously;
F@##% anyone that messes with my navigation back.
by dangusmaximus
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