I fondly refer to this effort as the Boiler Kick Less Project ;-)

• HTML5 Boilerplate (https://html5boilerplate.com/) is a wonderful combination of best practices for HTML5 and CSS3. According to their website, HTML5 Boilerplate is the web’s most popular front-end template which helps you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. They say you can "kick-start" your project with the combined knowledge and effort of 100s of developers, all in one little package.
• HTML5 Kickstart (https://www.99lime.com/elements/) on the other hand includes Ultra–Lean HTML5, CSS, & JS Building Blocks for Rapid Website Production:

If you are very experienced with HTML5 CSS3 and either HTML5 Boilerplate or HTML5 Kickstart we could really use your help. What we would like to do is to create a tool that will merge specific portions of the two projects together somewhat automatically, that way we can ensure that this project stays up to date with the two other projects. So if you are knowledgeable in this kind of a merge project, and more specifically automating the merge so that the project stays up to date that would also be a huge asset. We could really use your feedback on what parts should be included and what should be opted out from each project. Initially, we will be trying to see where there is overlap and which project has a better offering in that department and opting out weaker features for better ones with the goal of bringing to the table the "best of both worlds".

I would like to thank the HTML Boilerplate and HTML Kickstart teams, and the teams of the other open source projects that are making this project possible. Their hard work and faithful contribution to the community of web designers and all those who benefit from their innovation is a testimony to the human spirit to reach out and help others succeed. Thank you and God bless you for your efforts.

If you have feedback or would like to send a direct message to Jim Blake, the lead integrator for this project please do so at [email protected].

Below you will find links to the projects which our project is derived from, please be sure to recognize their efforts and great work:

HTML Boilerplate

• Website -
• Git Site -

HTML Kickstart

• Website -
• Git Site -

LESS Project

• Website -
• Git Site -

HTML5 Boilerplate is a professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.

This project is the product of many years of iterative development and combined community knowledge. It does not impose a specific development philosophy or framework, so you're free to architect your code in the way that you want.

• Source: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate
• Homepage: https://html5boilerplate.com
• Twitter: @h5bp

Choose one of the following options:

1. Download the latest stable release from html5boilerplate.com or a custom build from Initializr.
2. Clone the git repo — git clone https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git - and checkout the tagged release you'd like to use.

• HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
• Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Firefox, IE8+, Opera, Safari).
• Designed with progressive enhancement in mind.
• Includes Normalize.css for CSS normalizations and common bug fixes.
• The latest jQuery via CDN, with a local fallback.
• The latest Modernizr build for feature detection.
• Placeholder CSS Media Queries.
• Useful CSS helpers.
• Default print CSS, performance optimized.
• Protection against any stray console.log causing JavaScript errors in older browsers.
• An optimized Google Analytics snippet.
• Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for Grade-A performance.
• Cross-domain Ajax and Flash.
• "Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.
• Extensive inline and accompanying documentation.

HTML5 Boilerplate v4 provides legacy browser support (IE 6+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 4+), but is no longer actively developed.

Take a look at the documentation table of contents. This documentation is bundled with the project, which makes it readily available for offline reading and provides a useful starting point for any documentation you want to write about your project.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. Hundreds of developers have helped make the HTML5 Boilerplate what it is today.