Yesterday, Paul Irish and Divya Manian published The HTML5 Boilerplate. If you do any kind of development for the web – sites or applications – and typically start with a clean slate, then this is a must have.
Check this thing out…
The goal of the project is for it to be the most complete base set of functionality that you’ll need to develop cross-browser (including IE6) compatible, mobile-ready, HTML5-friendly, best-practice loaded pages.
HTML5 Boilerplate is also loaded for:
- Caching
- Progressive enhancement
- Unit tests
- JavaScript profiling
- Print-ready stylesheet
- .htaccess
- CDN-loaded jQuery
…and tons more.
Additionally, the framework comes loaded with the following files:
- index.html
- script.js
- handheld.css
- plugins.js
- crossdomain.xml
- robots.txt
- .htaccess
- style.css
So awesome. Unless I’m going to be using any other type of framework in future projects, this is going to me my new starting line.
You can read more at the site, download the project on GitHub, or follow them on Twitter.
Chase Adams says
Thanks for the framework Tom. Looking forward to digging into it.
Tom says
Yeah, same here. So full of so much good stuff..
Kylan Robinson says
I like the inclusion of the mobile-ready stylesheet, and the test suite looks intriguing.
Tom says
I do a lot of TDD on application stuff at work – I’m glad to see more people are taking this approach in the browser (specifically with JavaScript-based code).