The suite introduces the best of the best practices in web development, cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, and even optional features like cross-domain Ajax and Flash.

A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks the eff up with caching rules and prepares a site to serve HTML5 video, deliver @font-face, and add gzip support.

Here are some key features of "HTML5 Boilerplate":

Included components and libraries (with their licensing info):
· Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
· jQuery: MIT/GPL license
· DD_belatedPNG: MIT license
· YUI Profiling: BSD license
· HTML5Doctor CSS reset: Creative Commons 3.0 BY
· CSS Reset Reloaded: Public Domain

Limitations:

· Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get a project off the ground quickly and right-footed.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Gitignore additions: textmate project folder, older CVS folders, sass_cache.
· Update HTML elements demo: reduce repetition, remove deprecated elements, add certain HTML5 elements, add more comprehensive collection of HTML5 input types, include different form markup styles, add form elements box-sizing test
· Add .gitattributes to help with consistent line endings
· Changed curly quotes to straight quotes in crossdomain.xml