HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript (Interview)

Aug 19, 2011

57:34

Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more.

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Show Notes:

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