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Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menus and adds much-sought-after enhancements.

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JavaScript SDK enables you to access all of the features of the Graph API via JavaScript, and it provides a rich set of client-side functionality for authentication and sharing. It differs from Facebook Connect.

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jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX.

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WP Super Cache is a page cache generation tool for WordPress.

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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

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JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses 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.