| # [HTML5 Boilerplate](http://html5boilerplate.com) | |
| HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, | |
| robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. | |
| This project is the product of many years of iterative development and combined | |
| community knowledge. It does not impose a specific development philosophy or | |
| framework, so you're free to architect your code in the way that you want. | |
| * Source: [https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate) | |
| * Homepage: [http://html5boilerplate.com](http://html5boilerplate.com) | |
| * Twitter: [@h5bp](http://twitter.com/h5bp) | |
| ## Quick start | |
| Choose one of the following options: | |
| 1. Download the latest stable release from | |
| [html5boilerplate.com](http://html5boilerplate.com/) or a custom build from | |
| [Initializr](http://www.initializr.com). | |
| 2. Clone the git repo — `git clone | |
| https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git` - and checkout the tagged | |
| release you'd like to use. | |
| ## Features | |
| * HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence. | |
| * Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3.6+, IE6+). | |
| * Designed with progressive enhancement in mind. | |
| * Includes [Normalize.css](http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/) for CSS | |
| normalizations and common bug fixes. | |
| * The latest [jQuery](http://jquery.com/) via CDN, with a local fallback. | |
| * The latest [Modernizr](http://modernizr.com/) build for feature detection. | |
| * IE-specific classes for easier cross-browser control. | |
| * Placeholder CSS Media Queries. | |
| * Useful CSS helpers. | |
| * Default print CSS, performance optimized. | |
| * Protection against any stray `console.log` causing JavaScript errors in | |
| IE6/7. | |
| * An optimized Google Analytics snippet. | |
| * Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for | |
| Grade-A performance. | |
| * Cross-domain Ajax and Flash. | |
| * "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need. | |
| * Extensive inline and accompanying documentation. | |
| ## Documentation | |
| Take a look at the [documentation table of | |
| contents](/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/doc/README.md). This | |
| documentation is bundled with the project, which makes it readily available for | |
| offline reading and provides a useful starting point for any documentation | |
| you want to write about your project. | |
| ## Contributing | |
| Anyone and everyone is welcome to | |
| [contribute](/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/doc/contribute.md). Hundreds | |
| of developers have helped make the HTML5 Boilerplate what it is today. | |