Changelog Interviews

HTML5 Boilerplate and JavaScript

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more.

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Featuring:

  • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Paul Irish - Chrome dev relations guy at Google.
  • Dion Almaer - Host of Function Source, all around JavaScript, frontend expert.
  • “HTML5 is a jewel that we need to cut into a weapon” - Dion /via Yehuda Katz
  • Adam is in love with GitHub’s new editor powered by Cloud 9
  • HTML5 Boilerplate contains a set of best practices to use as a starting point for new projects or pick what you need a la cart.
  • Boilerplate now includes Normalize.css, a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards.
  • Normalize is a collaboration between Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
  • Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites, from Faruk Ate?, Paul, and Alex Sexton.
  • rack-modernizr from Marshall Yount brings Modernizr to the server
  • Paul coined the term FOUT - Flash Of Unstyled Text.
  • HTML5 polyfills implant html5 functionality in browsers that don’t natively support them.
  • Paul makes micro microapps for CSS3, text shadows, and HSL picking.
  • Paul is a fan of Chris Coyer of CSS Tricks
  • Need an idea for a weekend project, check out Paul’s Lazy Web Requests

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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