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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

WordPress, the ubiquitous publishing platform that launched millions of blogs and websites, turned 20 on May 27th. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. MySQL was performant enough to support heavily trafficked blogs and websites.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing

Smashing Magazine

I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. It was developed in 2004. Now the Selenium WebDriver is being used as it provides support for the mobile experience and dynamic websites.

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Why Do Selenium Tests Fail? : Top Reasons

Testsigma

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. Let us look at a few reasons why Selenium tests fail: Asynchronous websites. Dynamic websites that change without refresh.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. That means describing what a website is.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication

Smashing Magazine

Contemporary transitional typefaces are popular, including Cambria which was designed by Jelle Bosma in 2004 for Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection. You can also buy the PDF and examples from this, and every issue from Andy’s website. The ends of many strokes are marked by ball terminals in place of angled or blunt or serifs.

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