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

Polyfill is a service which accepts a request for a set of browser features and returns only the polyfills that are needed by the requesting browser.

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

Using this tag you can set up your web app to have an application shortcut icon added to a device's homescreen, and have the app launch in full-screen "app mode".

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

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

Enyo is a JavaScript app framework enabling developers to build native-quality HTML5 apps that run everywhere.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

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.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

The website contains Adobe Flash content embeded without the use of JavaScript.

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

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

Wesites using favicon rel tag

When running in a browser on a mobile phone, "format-detection" meta tag determines whether or not telephone numbers in the HTML content will appear as hypertext links. The user can click a link with a telephone number to initiate a phone call to that phone number.