My personal boilerplate: HTML5, small screen first, cross-browser, normalization, progressive enhancement.
Adapted from the HTML5 Boilerplate and Mobile HTML5 Boilerplate projects. Check them out.
- Viewport
metatag helps improve appearance on mobile devices. - Browser and device icons are in the root directory.
- Modernizr 1.8pre is used to supply the MQ feature test.
- Browsers with no MQ support load Respond.js. Uses an experimental parser so that Respond.js does not require CSS comments (which are stripped by the H5BP build script).
- ARIA roles on common components (include additional, relevant roles throughout development)
- Google CDN and local fallback for jQuery
- Mathias' shorter Google Analytics tracking snippet (including tracking of page load time)
- If Modernizr is not needed: replace it with the HTML5 shim, drop the feature test, and load Respond.js in all browsers.
- When Respond.js adopts the experimental parser, combine the two files into one to reduce HTTP requests.
- Small screen first approach. Build up the design in layers of project-specific @media queries.
- No reset is used; normalization + personalization is preferred (see comments in file). Related "normalization" projects: jonathantneal/normalize.css and necolas/normalize.css
- Set
displayfor various HTML5 elements. - Avoid iOS text-resize and tap-highlight problems.
- Base styles include fixes for various, common browser bugs and inconsistencies.
- Includes Micro clearfix helper class.
- Print styles strip text shadows, backgrounds, and filters; set font colour to black; and generally improve the display for printed documents.
Refer to the release notes for HTML5 Boilerplate on Github.
The build script included here is cloned and kept up to date with the H5BP repo.
The .htaccess file is a reduced version of the H5BP file.
Major components:
- Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
- jQuery: MIT/GPL license
- Respond: MIT/GPL license
Everything else:
- The Unlicense (aka: public domain)