STM CORTEX M3

Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?
There are major problems with it and I even emailed them asking for
some directions on navigating their site ( 3 times) and I have yet to
receive a response.  

I would appreciate any input about this.

Thank you.

Joe

justme <jbleaux@gmail.com> writes:

> Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?
> There are major problems with it and I even emailed them asking for
> some directions on navigating their site ( 3 times) and I have yet to
> receive a response.  
>
> I would appreciate any input about this.

Recently they changed it all over to flash and now it is absolutely
appalling.

-- 

John Devereux

On 2011-02-24, justme <jbleaux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?
> There are major problems with it and I even emailed them asking for
> some directions on navigating their site ( 3 times) and I have yet to
> receive a response.  
>
> I would appreciate any input about this.
>

My input is that I thought "to hell with that" and went and bought a Atmel
board instead.

If you look around at various web forums, you will see a lot of complaints
about the new website.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

On Feb 25, 4:35=A0am, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2011-02-24, justme <jble...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?
> > There are major problems with it and I even emailed them asking for
> > some directions on navigating their site ( 3 times) and I have yet to
> > receive a response. =A0
>
> > I would appreciate any input about this.
>
> My input is that I thought "to hell with that" and went and bought a Atme=
l
> board instead.
>
> If you look around at various web forums, you will see a lot of complaint=
s
> about the new website.
>
> Simon.
>
> --
> Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

I didn't think it could be THAT bad.  I was wrong.

By the way, what browser should I use?  It doesn't work with FireFox,
Chrome, or Internet Explorer.

RK

On 2/24/2011 8:07 PM, justme wrote:
> Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?
> There are major problems with it and I even emailed them asking for
> some directions on navigating their site ( 3 times) and I have yet to
> receive a response.
>
> I would appreciate any input about this.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Joe
>

Just on the CM3?  I now find the entire STM site so entirely unusable 
that I'm buying other people's parts just to avoid the horrors of having 
to dig them for datasheets.

-- 
Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology
Email address is currently out of order

Rob Gaddi wrote:

> Just on the CM3?  I now find the entire STM site so entirely unusable 
> that I'm buying other people's parts just to avoid the horrors of having 
> to dig them for datasheets.

You could search it on Digikey, they have links to the datasheets.

Sometimes it helps trying to write to the CEO about bad web design. Usually
they don't know how many orders they lose because of such a website, maybe
because the presentation of the designer looks great, but they didn't try
to use it as an engineer.

Last year the website was usable, but now the Flash animation is of the
size of a postage stamp on my widescreen display (you can see 5 lines of a
product family in a scrollable table, and more than half of the screen is
empty) and the usual web navigation, like open a link in another window,
doesn't work and in Linux it doesn't work at all (Opera can show the Flash
animation).

I wonder why they waste money on Flash animations for engineers, instead of
using it for a functional website like Digikey. But of course, STM
microcontrollers and other products are nice.

-- 
Frank Buss, http://www.frank-buss.de
piano and more: http://www.youtube.com/user/frankbuss

justme <jbleaux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?

Too many managers with too little to do.

-a

On 2011-02-25, NeedCleverHandle <d_s_klein@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I didn't think it could be THAT bad.  I was wrong.
>
> By the way, what browser should I use?  It doesn't work with FireFox,
> Chrome, or Internet Explorer.
>

You need Flash installed to use the ST website now which is something
I refuse to install for just one website as I do not need it for the rest
of my online activities.

As well as the fact I've found Flash based websites to be bloated and slow,
especially when you try browsing them from a mobile internet connection
which I do a good portion of the time, I also refuse to open my machines
to a major source of malware (given Flash's security history).

BTW, someone mentioned when I posted about this new website a month or
two ago that Google don't index Flash based websites. I wonder if ST have
considered that...

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

Fellows, thank you very much for the information about STM's terrible
website.  I will make a compilation of the comments here sans names/id
and get it to the C.E.O. and a few others.  If anyone already knows
his/her email, please pass it along.

All this time I thought that maybe that I was dumber than I already
knew because I was getting nowhere.

Thanks.

Joe

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:07:11 -0600, justme <jbleaux@gmail.com> wrote:

>Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?
>There are major problems with it and I even emailed them asking for
>some directions on navigating their site ( 3 times) and I have yet to
>receive a response.  
>
>I would appreciate any input about this.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Joe

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:07:11 -0600, justme <jbleaux@gmail.com> wrote:

>Does anyone else find that STMs web site on Cortex M3 beyond abysmal?
>There are major problems with it and I even emailed them asking for
>some directions on navigating their site ( 3 times) and I have yet to
>receive a response.  
>
>I would appreciate any input about this.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Joe