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Simple HTML5 Template
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html5_template.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge, chrome=1" />
<title>untitled</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="" />
</head>
<body>
<script src=""></script>
</body>
</html>
@nimbupani
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also end tags for body and html :))

@nathansmith
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Did I say "minimalist"? I should've just said "lazy". :)

In that, I'm too curmudgeonly to un-learn my old XHTML habits of self-closing slashes, </body>, and </html> tags.

@kevindougans
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i've felt for years that the basic html template got too complicated for no apparent reason. i can understand why things had to be declared (i.e. xhtml) but there really wasn't a need for that to be a 150 char string. reminds me of when i first learned html in 96/97, when i thoroughly enjoyed it, yay! :)

@nathansmith
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Agreed. Back to basics, FTW. :)

@biojazzard
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Great!
I´ll only change one letter, so that fits for me:

lang="eS"

;-P

@adamstac
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adamstac commented Dec 7, 2011

So lazy there aren't any indents either. Surprised you didn't post this in Haml.

@nathansmith
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Yeah, if I'm writing HTML, I don't indent anything until the 2nd level of nestedness inside <body>, since every site has <html>, <head>, and <body>, I'm not usually visually scanning to find them. I tend to be focused on the "meat" of the page... the tags inside <body>.

@daveygm
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daveygm commented Dec 14, 2011

I take this minus the self-closing slashes, then add in HTML5 Boilerplate as needed. Thanks!

@adamstac
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I just use Serve w/ my bootstrap. Deploy's to Heroku in minutes too.

@nathansmith
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@adamstac — Agreed. Serve is awesome.

But, it's overkill if I just want to have a valid HTML document to test something real quick. Chrome seems to not just like HTML snippets without at least an html tag around 'em.

For instance, a few days ago, I was verifying a Formalize (http://formalize.me) bug reported in WebKit, so I put this in my minimal HTML template, tested it on the desktop, and then deleted it...

<!--
  Other browsers only see size="2" and
  higher, so they treat this as a single
  select drop-down, but WebKit always
  responds to size="..." attribute.
-->

<select>
  <option>...</option>
  <option>...</option>
</select>

<select size="0">
  <option>...</option>
  <option>...</option>
</select>

<select size="1">
  <option>...</option>
  <option>...</option>
</select>

In instances like that, setting up Serve would've been more effort than it's worth. So, that's why I keep a handy flat-file template at arm's length.

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