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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

Finding the best experience for Internet Explorer


Internet Explorer versions 8 and below have had very haphazard support for standards and consistent rendering. Depending on the number of users who visit your site using Internet Explorer, you may or may not want to spend the effort optimizing for Internet Explorer.

Mobile-first styles for IE

Media Queries are CSS features that allow you to apply different sets of rules depending on the value of a particular media feature. For example, if the browser has minimum width of 500 pixels, you could make all your h1 elements turn red, as shown in the following code:

@media only screen and (min-width: 500px) {
h1 { color: red; }
}

However, IE6, IE7, and IE8 do not understand media queries that are typically used to adjust widths according to different screen widths. As such, they will never render the optimized styles you create for browsers with screen widths that match a certain media query break point (min-width: 500px in the previous snippet). In...