Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-13 Thread Russ Weakley
I rather liked the conditionals around the body. What's not to like? Imho, it goes against the separation of structure and presentation (plus it messes up with the cascade), but I can understand why they are doing this. Since most people strongly believe that CSS validation is a must, th

RE: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-13 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> I rather liked the conditionals around the body. What's not to like? Imho, it goes against the separation of structure and presentation (plus it messes up with the cascade), but I can understand why they are doing this. Since most people strongly believe that CSS validation is a must, they have

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Like the site says, it's "delete-key friendly" :-) On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:40 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: > On 8/12/10 4:57 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> Anyone have any thoughts on this? Worth a try? On a production site? >> >> http://html5boilerplate.com/ >> >> Looks pretty good to me... w

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 8/12/10 4:57 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on this? Worth a try? On a production site? http://html5boilerplate.com/ Looks pretty good to me... what say ye? Some useful ideas there, although I won't be using it "as-is." Thanks for sharing. Cordially, David -- *

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
On 12/08/2010 14:55, Hugo Mendes wrote: I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but an "HTML5 Professional Template" with BROWSER DETECTION (those conditional comments in the markup) is not a best practice. It's certainly ugly, but a very pragmatic way of having style fixes for the various broken ve

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
I rather liked the conditionals around the body. What's not to like? On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Hugo Mendes wrote: > I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but an "HTML5 Professional Template" > with BROWSER DETECTION (those conditional comments in the markup) is > not a best practice. > > - H

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Hugo Mendes
I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but an "HTML5 Professional Template" with BROWSER DETECTION (those conditional comments in the markup) is not a best practice. - HM On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Sam Sherlock wrote: > Dan I would look past per-site design choices such as that. > and look into

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Sam Sherlock
Dan I would look past per-site design choices such as that. and look into the neat and beneficial features which are many and various (also the example in use there is outdated compared with the code on github) the site has the initial release of html5boilerplate where as the github repo is stag

RE: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Freeman
Considering the link doesn't even look right in IE8, I'm not sure I'd use it to build anything. Dan Freeman Webmaster & ERP Administrator 800.650.6506 (TOLL FREE) 330.655.0341 (DIRECT) www.lexi.com -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] O

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
What is " profrontend template " ? Tnx -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Un

Re: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

2010-08-12 Thread Sam Sherlock
I find it works really well minimal files & overhead with lots of addition life smoothing extras (in my case *it* refers to profrontend template rather than boilerplate but has same practices) I would be interested to hear what others have to say too :) - S On 12 August 2010 12:57, Tom Livi