Hello, 1998 called, they want their website back

[ivan747]

This has to be a joke...
http://218.210.127.131/Default.aspx



That's a PC chip/ASIC vendor right there.
Best viewed on a 800x600 monitor with Internet Explorer 6.0 

The part that really got me was this:

©2015 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.

[c4757p]

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.

[Mechanical Menace]

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.

Honestly just visit the site and try to download a driver. It doesn't just look like something from 1998.

[c4757p]

Works for me

[mariush]

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.

[TerraHertz]

Best viewed at 800x600 with  IE 6.0 or  Netscape 7.02 or  Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.

So?
Designed for phones and tablets perhaps? Also:

STYLE type="text/css" media="screen, tv, projection"

The 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.

[c4757p]

Personally for my taste the appearance is still too complicated, since it has a pointless Flash animation.

I just figure I've lost the battle against pointless animations.

[Mechanical Menace]

Works for me

Same here for once. Previously I've been lucky if I got 5kb/s downloads and I've never had a slow connection.

[EEVblog]

What are you talking about, IE6 was released in 2001, so can't be 1998!

[Stephen Durr]

and ASP.NET was released in 2002

[Halcyon]

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.

[BravoV]

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.

QFT 

No need fancy bloated script infected web page that made a browser crawl even at high end desktop machine, which I really hate. 

[steve30]

It does look a bit old fashioned, but it looks nice and readable, and easy to navigate.

Not sure about that flash though.

[ivan747]

and ASP.NET was released in 2002

What are you talking about, IE6 was released in 2001, so can't be 1998!

Minor updates

Bet 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!"

[bitseeker]

Interesting that you ended up there via direct IP address instead of http://www.realtek.com/

The copyright date is probably dynamically populated.

[ivan747]

I have no idea how I got there. Probably some tech forum.

[Mechanical Menace]

Interesting that you ended up there via direct IP address instead of http://www.realtek.com/

I can imagine nmap was involved lol

[krish2487]

But still a lot more utilitarian and functional than


http://www.analog.com/en/index.html


or


http://www.linear.com/


or


http://www.microchip.com/


or


http://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!!!

[ivan747]

Hey at least those are centered 

The 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.