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Html5Boilerplate or Html5Boilerplate Mobile for mobile-first website?


Now that Html5Boilerplate has reached version 2.0 and is oriented around mobile-first design, should Html5Boilerplate Mobile still be used for mobile-first sites? Just wanted to ask b/f I dig through the code of each.

It appears one of the obvious differences is that Html5Boilerplate has switched from CSS reset to normalize, and added mobile-first aspects like respond.js and mobile media query sections. Standard boilerplate appears more active on Github as well. Anyone have any opinion about these two?


Solution

  • No, Html5Boilerplate Mobile should not be used for new projects; it is deprecated.

    A deprecation notice was added in July 2015 to the project's GitHub repo (as of this answering -- Aug 2016 -- that was the most recent commit):

    The H5BP team decided to no longer maintain Mobile Boilerplate since HTML5 Boilerplate seems to be a good starting point for any kind of project.