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?).
McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of (2022)
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#12Built 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?).
I think there's also some Yahoo UI in there too.
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#13Imagine an alternate universe where Amazon has a similar interface. It would be the most amazing tool.
Germans have https://geizhals.de
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#14Re: McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of (2022)
#15My 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.
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#16Imagine an alternate universe where Amazon has a similar interface. It would be the most amazing tool.
Germans have https://geizhals.de
Having used both extensively, Geizhals doesn't hold a candle to McMaster. McMaster is, bar none, the single best e commerce website I've ever used (if you already know what you're looking for, and definitely still top shelf if you don't).
But McMaster and eg Amazon are optimizing for different things. McMaster knows its clientele isn't going shopping, they're solving problems. As such, McMaster focuses on helping your solve your problem and get back to work. Amazon, on the other hand, is focused on just selling you "as much 'anything' as possible" and wants you to spend as much time there as possible in the hopes that you'll stumble on an impulse buy.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germans have https://geizhals.de
Except for the annoying cookie popup. If only we had a simple browser setting/header that could answer this question without another click. Hmm
We do! It recognises the 'Do Not Track' sent, at least on FF for me. I get a very small popup telling me it's respecting this setting, and no request for accepting anything else:
> "Do not Track"-Modus erkannt! Es werden nur technisch notwendige Cookies verwended. [Datenschutzerkl"arung](...)
Lovely. If only the rest of the web looked like this.
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#18Built 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?).
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#19Built 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?).
I've been doing more and more web dev with JQuery recently. I learned it in high school and I think most of the new JS frameworks are probably worse.
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#20On my browser the screen jumps around while vertically scrolling on the McMaster homepage. It's not all rainbows and sunshine.