Duke University Stack

Duke.edu is built with the following tech stack:

Document Encoding

UTF-8

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

Mobile

Viewport Meta

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

Document Standards

X-UA-Compatible

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.

Canonical Content Tag

Public specification of a preferred URL for a page allows search engines to understand the original location for content.

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML

Javascript

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.

WAI-ARIA

A way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

Srcset

Adapting images for high-resolution and low-resolution displays.

HTML5 DocType

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

HTML 5 Specific Tags

This page contains tags that are specific to an HTML 5 implementation.

Content Type Options

Used to disable MIME-sniffing for a particular HTTP response.