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HTML5 Boilerplate past, present, and future Nicolas Gallagher @necolas

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HTML5 Boilerplate Normalize.css SUIT toolkit Idiomatic CSS

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Has been used by… Google Microsoft Twitter NASA Nike etc.

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In the beginning…

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“Markup zygote”

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HTML CSS JS libraries Build script Test framework

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Removing the test framework

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Removing the build script

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Removing hot pink

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Spin-off libraries

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Consuming normalize.css

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Also used by… Twitter Bootstrap YUI 3 TweetDeck Soundcloud GOV.UK Guardian Rdio Medium …and others.

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Consuming .htaccess

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v1.0...v4.1.0 3,094 (+) and 12,751(-) github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/compare/v1.0...v4.1.0

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Smaller scope. Wider adoption

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Limit scope

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Project maintenance

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Write documentation early

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Core developers

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Not too many cooks

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But find collaborators!

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Lessons from volunteering

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Give people responsibility

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Make people feel appreciated

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We made mistakes

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What about the future?

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Evolution of tooling

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github.com/twitter/bower

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github.com/gruntjs/grunt

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github.com/yeoman/yo

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Future of the Web Platform

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Web Components

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Built-in destruction

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Fin