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Technologies in use by kirkhamengineering.co.uk

Websites embedding Google maps.

Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

Websites using Google technologies

Websites using some type of cookie consent system

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

A rich hosted Exchange environment for every user without having to manage a server.

websites using the $ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this currency used in Israel.

Content Security Policy is best used as defense-in-depth, to reduce the harm caused by content injection attacks.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

Wesites using favicon rel tag

Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.

Meta Keywords are a specific type of meta tag that appear in the HTML code of a Web page and help tell search engines what the topic of the page is.

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.