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Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Smashing Magazine

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. Typically, these would be pages that might no longer be available on the site but are available in third-party archives.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. But this “look” is now available in browsers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. It is most evident among firms such as publishers and retailers caught up in a technology arms race. It is disingenuous to ascribe "value" to these: business don't measure value or return on their electricity or tap water. Nor should they on a technology utility.

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Element Timing: One true metric to rule them all?

Speed Curve

The screenshots from What Hifi (a UK audio-visual magazine) illustrate this problem. In this example, a retailer is tracking when their logo and the first product image is displayed: Visualising when a retailer's logo and first product image is displayed to a visitor. Only available in Chromium-based browsers.

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How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js

Smashing Magazine

But first of all, I’d like to make something clear right now — while the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon.

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Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters

Smashing Magazine

We do so by breaking our intent down into a set of available features. A good example of it is Rozetka.ua , an eCommerce retailer from Ukraine (see above). Asynchronous loading of results on Coolblue.nl , a retailer from the Netherlands. Always Provide Text Input Fallback For Sliders. A text input fallback is provided as well.

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Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers

Smashing Magazine

Modern web application development has been simplified due to the availability of a plethora of new browser APIs. The list given here is only an example and can be customized and updated based on your website’s requirements and the time available. Dropping in babel-polyfill as is can add close to 90 KB to your minified bundle.

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