HTML5 frameworks an overview (part II): HTML5Boilerplate

An html5 framework is a pre-built set of pages in html5 with a highly structured css/css3 and some enhances and features added by javascript, so it's not only html5 but concerns a set of technologies always more strictly integrated.

The second framework we're going to consider in this overview is:

HTML5 Boilerplate

http://html5boilerplate.com/

"HTML5 Boilerplate helps you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. Kick-start your project with the combined knowledge and effort of 100s of developers, all in one little package."

HTML5 Boilerplate contains a mobile-friendly HTML template, moreover includes Normalize.css, Modernizr, jQuery and an optimised version of Google script for Analytics.
In the bundle:

• an .htaccess file with Apache server configurations for url rewriting and better performances,
• a humans.txt file, 
• a robots.txt file, 
• a crossdomain.xml file,
• a basic template ready for media query, 
• a 404 page.

H5BP is a collection of best practices, a solid background for a site that wants to be usable with different browsers and different devices, but comes with any graphical enhance, the default and raw index.html page appears like this:

Nevertheless H5BP has a rich “community driven” set of extensions and tools, a wonderful case studies site and is well documented.

Take a look to this videoguide for an introduciont to H5BP:

Or click those links for a deeper analisys with code snippets:

• http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/snippets-html5-boilerplate/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/introduction-html5-boilerplate/
• http://www.jasondemeuse.com/blog/blog-article/learning-from-the-html5-boilerplate