April 15, 2013

This is my own version of boilerplate which incorporates modifications that are likely to help any web project when it starts and even throughout the development process. As with the root boilerplate project it is VERY delete key-friendly and no part of it needs to be retained that isn't necessary for a particular project. Some portions of it can be considered as scaffolding, bits of information that are helpful to know at the beginning of the project but that can then be removed once their helpfulness has been brought to bear on the project.

Christian Ziebarth

Everything below is the original HTML5 Boilerplate readme.md contents:

HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template that helps you build fast, robust, adaptable, and future-proof websites. Spend more time developing and less time reinventing the wheel.

This project is the product of many years of iterative development and combined community knowledge. It does not impose a specific development philosophy or framework, so you're free to architect your code in the way that you want.

Clone the git repo - git clone git://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git - or download it

• HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
• Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3.6+, IE6+).
• Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
• CSS normalizations and common bug fixes.
• IE-specific classes for easier cross-browser control.
• A default print stylesheet, performance optimized.
• Mobile browser optimizations.
• Protection against any stray console.log causing JavaScript errors in IE6/7.
• The latest jQuery via CDN, with a local fallback.
• A custom Modernizr build for feature detection.
• An optimized Google Analytics snippet.
• Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for Grade-A performance.
• Cross-domain Ajax and Flash.
• "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
• Extensive inline and accompanying documentation.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. Hundreds of developers have helped make the HTML5 Boilerplate what it is today.

• Source: http://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate
• Web: http://html5boilerplate.com
• Docs: http://html5boilerplate.com/docs
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/h5bp

• jQuery: MIT/GPL license
• Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
• Normalize.css: Public Domain

The Unlicense (aka: public domain)