HTML5 Boilerplate

HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.
After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on.


Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed.

• Cross-browser compatible (IE6, yeah we got that.)
• HTML5 ready. Use the new tags with certainty.
• Optimal caching and compression rules for grade-A performance
• Best practice site configuration defaults
• Mobile browser optimizations
• Progressive enhancement graceful degradation … yeah yeah we got that
• IE specific classes for maximum cross-browser control
• Handy .no-js and .js classes to style based on capability
• Want to write unit tests but lazy? A full, hooked up test suite is waiting for you.