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HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development

By : Divya Manian
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HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development

By: Divya Manian

Overview of this book

<p>HTML5 Boilerplate is the number one choice for many web developers to get their projects going. It provides a comprehensive set of starting templates to get your developments going, ensuring you don&rsquo;t forget any important elements of a typical web project while also ensuring you are writing quality code and mark up. Learning how to use this framework of page and code templates will allow you to kick-start your projects quickly without losing out on quality.<br /><br />"HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development" will enable you to build new projects effectively with minimal effort. HTML5 Boilerplate allows you to deploy quality websites successfully and quickly while also ensuring robust cross-browser performance. It takes you through the step-by-step process of creating a website and teaches you to take full advantage of the html layouts provided within HTML5 Boilerplate; be it styles, mark up, or code so you can accomplish your goals.<br /><br />This book will guide you through the process of building a music festival website, as an applicable example, using HTML5 Boilerplate. You will install, set up HTML5 Boilerplate and deploy production sites. <br /><br />First, we will look at how to install HTML5 Boilerplate so you can use it repeatedly to jumpstart your projects, then we will look at structuring your website using the base files. We will use Modernizr and feature detection to dynamically serve different styles and scripts based on support of certain features. We will discover how to best configure our server to provide high performance and security for our website. Finally, we employ the Build Tool to combine files, remove comments and make the site ready for production use.<br /><br />"HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development" offers a well-rounded tutorial in expert web development; not just a starting place for web projects. It develops code snippets, links to further resources for and in addition to makes you understand the nuances of HTML5 Boilerplate.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Testing our site


Whew! That was a lot to get by! But wait, we are not done yet! We have written all the code, but how about some testing? There are so many variants of browsers out there and it is impossible to test on each and every one of them. Fortunately, it is pretty simple to test on most major versions of browsers.

If you are on Windows, I recommend you install the latest versions of Opera, Opera Next, Safari, Chrome, Chrome Canary, Firefox, Firefox Nightly, IE8, and IE10.

If you are on Mac, get every browser listed above, except IE. If you are able to afford it, buy a Windows Operating System and install it as a virtual image on Virtual Box (www.virtualbox.org/). Microsoft provides older IEs as virtual images for testing, which you could also install on Virtual Box using ievms (github.com/xdissent/ievms).

For a far easier but less rigorous testing option—say when you have not yet finalized your website—try www.browserstack.com or browserling.com.

All of these browsers have developer...