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HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by paulirish » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5
html5boilerplate.com

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by tonyjcamp » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 4:59 PM UTC

The build script is an awesome addition to an already great tool. Keep up the great work.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by paulirish » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 4:59 PM UTC

The project went 1.0 today. Highlights:

* A custom builder to customize your download

* An Ant Build Script that handles all the optimization to make YSlow and PageSpeed happy.

* Rich documentation: http://html5boilerplate.com/docs

* Lots of videos (2 new) on Getting Started and familiarizing with the Build Script

* Default webserver configurations optimized for perf for: Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, Google App Engine, IIS, NodeJS

* Many small tweaks (read the source comments and full changelog)

* A humans.txt

* All that and we even reduced the overall published size of the boilerplate.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by davnola » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 5:41 PM UTC

paulirish wrote: post #3

The project went 1.0 today. Highlights: * A custom builder to customize your download * An Ant Build Script that handles all the optimization to make YSlow and PageSpeed happy. * Rich documentation: http://html5boilerplate.com/docs * Lots of videos (2 new) on Getting Started and familiarizing with the Build Script * Default webserver configurations optimized for perf for: Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, Google App Engine, I…

Major thanks for html5boilerplate, for Modernizr, and especially for maintaining this page: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-brow... !

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by sbierwagen » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 5:48 PM UTC

I see it uses and , which, in fact, are not required. Pages without them pass W3C validation without warnings.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by ericdoolan » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 5:49 PM UTC

A very cool starting point for anything going into a web browser. Thank you.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by nkassis » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 5:51 PM UTC

tonyjcamp wrote: post #2

The build script is an awesome addition to an already great tool. Keep up the great work.

Yeah, that's a great addition, I'll have to start using it. I'm manually replacing the script tags in my code between deployment because I want to keep all the files separate for debugging and then minify after. It's a pain.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by bradleyland » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 6:05 PM UTC

sbierwagen wrote: post #5

I see it uses and , which, in fact, are not required. Pages without them pass W3C validation without warnings.

Yes, but why are head and body not required? Just because a page validates without them does not make them superfluous in all cases.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by twir » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC

This looks neat, but being a DIY kind of dude, I'm not sure what this is for. I'm probably missing something--I think I know "what" it is, just not "why". Can anyone give me a brief rundown?

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5

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Post by weehuy » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

One of the best things about this (and other irish & co. projects)are the explanations and docs. This team always makes reading and understanding what's going on behind the scenes entertaining. It's immensely valuable to a relative newbie like myself.