HTML5 Boilerplate: past, present, and future

Musing and opinions about HTML5 Boilerplate and working on open source code.

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1. HTML5 Boilerplate past, present, and future Nicolas Gallagher @necolas
2. HTML5 Boilerplate Normalize.css SUIT toolkit Idiomatic CSS
4. Has been used by… Google Microsoft Twitter NASA Nike etc.
5. In the beginning…
6. “Markup zygote”
7. HTML CSS JS libraries Build script Test framework
8. Removing the test framework
9. Removing the build script
10. Removing hot pink
13. Spin-off libraries
14. Consuming normalize.css
16. Also used by… Twitter Bootstrap YUI 3 TweetDeck Soundcloud GOV.UK Guardian Rdio Medium …and others.
17. Consuming .htaccess
19. v1.0...v4.1.0 3,094 (+) and 12,751(-) github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/compare/v1.0...v4.1.0
20. Smaller scope. Wider adoption
22. Limit scope
23. Project maintenance
24. Write documentation early
25. Core developers
28. Not too many cooks
29. But find collaborators!
30. Lessons from volunteering
31. Give people responsibility
32. Make people feel appreciated
33. We made mistakes
34. What about the future?
35. Evolution of tooling
37. github.com/twitter/bower
38. github.com/gruntjs/grunt
39. github.com/yeoman/yo
40. Future of the Web Platform
41. Web Components
42. Built-in destruction
43. Fin