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06/28/10 23:55
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#176957 - I have always been wondering about the www.nxp.com site
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I find it fascinating that NXP has so big problems with web sites.

The old standardics site (which now seems to be ics.nxp.com) is reasonably easy to use.

The www.nxp.com site on the other hand have been impossible to navigate. 10 minutes on www.nxp.com may not be enough to reach a specific document. You may find the processor but it may look like the documents you want doesn't exist. You may continue to browse more and suddenly once more find what looks like the product page for the same processor. This time with totally different information available. Switching to Google previously directly pointed to the document on the older standardics site and now points to the documents on the ics.nxp.com address.

Why create two parallel web pages where one is completely impossible to use? Because they have two teams of web developers because of corporate mergers and feel that they need to throw a bone to the group of losers too despite knowing that the result will be unusable? Not only is www.nxp.com almost impossible to navigate, but it is suffering from grave violations of http standards. They are using invalid characters in some of their URL, making some correct software fail to handle their URL. They have had pages making HTML analyzer software detect and report thousands of direct coding errors. Some pages seems to more or less accidentally manage to display the intended information while the HTML encoding seems to be intended for denial-of-service attacks to kill less robust web browsers. The quality have been improving, but there is still a lot to do to make www.nxp.com a site that reaches the standards you would expect from a company of this size.

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forgetful me            01/01/70 00:00      
   have you tried ics.nxp.com?            01/01/70 00:00      
   NXP Standard products page            01/01/70 00:00      
      some hereq            01/01/70 00:00      
   Microcontrollers?            01/01/70 00:00      
      I have always been wondering about the www.nxp.com site            01/01/70 00:00      
         I once had a conversation ....            01/01/70 00:00      
   Tip for searching NXP            01/01/70 00:00      

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