Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frobernik Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: David Mark's Javascript Tip Du Jour - Volume #1 - Tip #1234 - How to Measure Element Dimensions Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:43:30 +0000 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <9ilh0iF8e5U1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net cTL6OdOY0yloViC3g4SoqAcT+OTOlc/8nhY2VIinBFc8aoVuKO Cancel-Lock: sha1:++ntgM1J2apLUDoZp3AAY9ktMw8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.javascript:8396 On 10/11/2011 21:12, Matt McDonald wrote: > On 11-11-10 12:47 PM, Ant wrote: > "HTML 5 Boilerplate" is a massive set of server > configurations, CSS file(s) ("normalizing", they call it), > JavaScript files (including jQuery & modernizr, neither of which > have any particular use to me), and other assorted bits. "normalizing" is just a set of resets in the real world made for so called "web apps" - because nothing says futuristic like a splash screen or a spinning dial > The biggest blow is marketing. Take a gander at > "HTML 5 Boilerplate"'s website (won't link). It's chock full of > over-the-top marketing speak. The first time I read it, I was > heavily offended by the textual content. I seriously pondered > if it was written by a prepubescent. Well there are people (apart from the punters on here) fighting modernizer, jQuery and other junk (will link) http://nefariousdesigns.co.uk/archive/2011/05/sniff-my-browser-the-modernizr-inadequacy/ Frobernik