On June 6, a major outage affected several major-league players’ websites, including Amazon, Twitch, Pinterest, Stack Overflow, GitHub, and other services. The problem was caused by a failure at Fastly, a popular CDN provider. The …
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Which video formats are the best in terms of size/quality and are compatible with most players on the web, Android & iOS? The short answer for 2021 is: WebM backed up by MP4 is the …
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Nowadays it’s extremely common to find a website that has dynamically inserted content. Usually it appears in response to a user input. A good example would be a so-called “accordion dropdown,” where hidden content reveals …
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While it had many negative impacts, the pandemic gave a great positive boost to many online industries, including ecommerce. Online retail made a mind-blowing leap, with ten years of growth in just a few months. …
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Before writing this post, I was thinking about the fact that we still use the term “web page.” Ideally it refers to a static layout of content, say, text and images like in a book, …
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