HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #67)

Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google.

Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert.

“HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz

Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9

HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart.

Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards.

Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal

Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton.

rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server

Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text.

HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them.

Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking.

Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks

Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests