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Re: HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You usually won't know a web page is actually using H5BP, especially without looking at the source. One of the ways to know, before the new release which sadly kills it, was that many sites didn't customize the default hot pink text-selection background color. Select text and get hot pink? You knew it was the boilerplate.

Also I imagine many wouldn't customize 404 too much

The 404 you usually had to hook in yourself depending on your server & framework, so that was way less likely.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0

#42

Let's have a moment's silence for our dear departed friend, #fe57a1.

I beg your pardon?

One interesting feature of html boilerplate was that, in its CSS, it set the background color of selected text to #fe57a1 (hot pink). For the longest time, it was a pretty easy way to identify an HB-based site as many developers didn't customize text selection. It also looked rather neat.

For some reason, they've removed it in v4.

Re: HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0

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post #32

Are there some famous projects that I can see concrete examples of use of this this project? This seems pretty cool but I still couldn't get it.

It's biggest purpose is to normalize html across all main browsers, and make them as supportive of HTML5 as possible.

You can put any other frontend framework on top of H5BP - Bootstrap, Foundation, etc. It's not mutually exclusive.

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