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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 and using polyfills


Most of HTML5 and CSS3 features have differing levels of support in different browsers, hence, either use JavaScript code to mimic these features in browsers that do not support them or provide an altering view. Such snippets of code are called polyfills.

I help maintain html5please.com which is an opinionated list of polyfills for some popular HTML5 and CSS3 features.

Beware of the performance penalty of using a lot of polyfills on a browser that does not support a lot of features.

When you do use your polyfills, make sure you use Modernizr's load function like we did for the audio polyfill for Sun and Sand Music Festival website in Chapter 4, Adding Interactivity and Completing Your Site. This would prevent unnecessary loading of polyfills on browsers that support the features you want to use.

A comprehensive list of all kinds of polyfills is available on the Modernizr Wiki at github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-browser-Polyfills.