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HTML5 boilerplate: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/main/src/inde...

comment by theandrewbailey · 2026-01-05 · in During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

…needed was some css styles. You can see it in the early versions of the HTML5 Boilerplate: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/v0.9/css/styl... I realized that I could just make up tags and style them and it was work.

comment by flanbiscuit · 2025-12-29 · in You can make up HTML tags

I often reach for the HTML5 boilerplate for things like this: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/main/dist/ind...

comment by theandrewbailey · 2025-10-27 · in Tags to make HTML work like you expect

…don't have to use conditional IE statements in my html anymore 1. https://html5boilerplate.com/ 2. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/tree/v0.9 3. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/tree/v0.9.5

comment by flanbiscuit · 2022-10-04 · in The HTML5 Shiv (2011)

…it does and failing to implement a suitable layout for all mobile device screen sizes and DPIs. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/main/src/inde...

comment by synthecypher · 2022-05-06 · in Please stop disabling zoom

Cool, this is like https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate but a little worse

comment by greggturkington · 2021-04-27 · in My Current HTML Boilerplate

…call this HTML5 boilerplate. So that's the way I google when I actually need something like this. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/src/in...

comment by drinchev · 2021-01-04 · in Minimal Base.html

…² https://medium.com/@xtianmiller/your-body-text-is-too-small-... ³ https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/724 ⁴ https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/font-size-adju... ⁵ http://caniuse.com/#feat=font-size-ad

comment by rhythmvs · 2017-08-11 · in Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property

There are uses: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/4ebe939594634...

comment by fagnerbrack · 2016-09-13 · in Chrome is intervening against document.write()

…http://statichtml.com/2011/google-ajax-libraries-caching.htm... https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327#issuecom... I have more recent data on this that is not yet published from my day-to-day work at a web per

comment by billyhoffman · 2015-07-10 · in Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015

…from a couple well-known tech folks. And so on... https://github.com/saberma/shopqi/pull/409 https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1074 https://github.com/ericf/yui3-gallery/pull/21 https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues…

comment by integraton · 2015-03-19 · in MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

Indeed! it's shipped as standard in html5 boilerplate code https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/c3a72ff882104...

comment by gprasanth · 2014-07-31 · in JQuery SSL Certificates Expire

The Html5 boiler plate project decided against shared JavaScript CDNs: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327 No. If you jump to the end of the long discussion, the last comment says: I'm sure there will be a similar…

comment by talklittle · 2014-01-24 · in Injection of malicious code into jQuery is increasing

…more recent stats from 2013. The Html5 boiler plate project decided against shared JavaScript CDNs: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327

comment by billyhoffman · 2014-01-24 · in Injection of malicious code into jQuery is increasing

…a way to save ~33 raw bytes was suggested in the HTML5 Boilerplate issues by using localStorage. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1444

comment by webhat · 2013-12-03 · in Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless domain

…github page. [2] [1] http://statichtml.com/2011/google-ajax-libraries-caching.htm... [2] https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327

comment by shadeless · 2013-08-11 · in Bootstrap-switch

Discussion of the issue here (disclaimer, I started the pull request) - https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327 The basic gist is that there is great fragmentation in the cache eco-system, and so there is no guarantee that the…

comment by LocalPCGuy · 2013-07-13 · in Show HN: Minified.js – a fully-featured, 4K alternative to jQuery and MooTools

You can also link to line ranges, which is relevant in this case: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/7a22a33d4041c...

comment by oneeyedpigeon · 2013-05-02 · in Fallback from CDN to local jQuery

Except that the chance of the asset you are requesting being cached is pretty minimal. See https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/pull/1327 for links and discussion about this. The conclusion seemed to be that is it likely that a CDN…

comment by LocalPCGuy · 2013-05-01 · in Fallback from CDN to local jQuery

…that doesn't exist). I try to link to the actual commit that master is pointing to at the time: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/7a22a33d4041c...

comment by waffle_ss · 2013-05-01 · in Fallback from CDN to local jQuery

FYI, You can link directly to lines in github: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index....

comment by wubbfindel · 2013-05-01 · in Fallback from CDN to local jQuery

I have seen this in the HTML5 Boilerplate code in line 27-28 https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index....

comment by mac1175 · 2013-05-01 · in Fallback from CDN to local jQuery

Some of it may be explained by early editions of the HTML5 Boilerplate "best practices". See: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/ed906cfb1b429...

comment by kibibu · 2013-04-02 · in A game when games were new

…inducing options, you do it yourself. For example; Throw in Paul Irish's .htaccess boilerplate: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/.htacc... Enable APC http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/ Minify using a build script…

comment by wyck · 2013-01-05 · in Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.

…maintained by Google people. Actually, HTML5 BP has an index page that's smaller than HTML5 Bones: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index.... I think that the index page HTML5 Bones has is rather bloated in comparison:…

comment by simonsarris · 2012-12-20 · in HTML5 Bones: The template that goes back to basics

When will the changelog be updated? https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/wiki/changelog

comment by calvin · 2012-08-30 · in HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0

…way of defining the original source of CSS, JS and other compiled-to-the-deployed-web languages. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/820 In this thread I ended up proposing something very much like what Dan is saying here but…

comment by paulirish · 2012-07-09 · in Open Letter to Web Designers and Developers: Max CSS

…for use in IE. It even logs output to a global array, so you can inspect the console output in IE. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/js/plu...

comment by d4n3 · 2012-05-08 · in We don't support Internet Explorer, and we're calling that a feature

I believe HTML5 boilerplate implements the smelly pattern. https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index....

comment by RegEx · 2012-04-15 · in Brendan Eich: The infernal semicolon

…contain a link to a relevant, in-depth article explaining the rationale behind the given rule. [1]: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/css/st...

comment by AdleyEskridge · 2012-02-06 · in HTML5 Boilerplate 3.0

…like you are just changing the doctype? See how HTML5BoilerPlate uses the header & footer tags: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index.... It would also be nice it you can directly output a version of html that…

comment by niyazpk · 2012-02-03 · in Show HN: my weekend project, PageBlox