Interesting. I was wondering when folks would be overwhelmed by the content of HTML5 Boilerplate. I expect this trend to continue.<p>FWIW, these boilerplates are enormously useful for reference and gaining knowledge of how HTML5 works, but rewriting and expanding our personal boilerplates is what we do as front-end devs. We never had a standardized boilerplate for HTML 4, after all.<p>Personally, I take bits and pieces of knowledge and techniques from these boilerplates, roll them into my own base template, and build on them with each project.
I had the exact same feeling when I first looked over HTML5 Boilerplate.<p>The HTML itself isn't so exotic. But my eyes glaze over paging through all the CSS & JS. And then there's the .htaccess -- all sorts of black magic in there.<p>Very useful as a reference for different issues, but there's no way I'm going to start with all of that baggage before a single line of original code. It feels over-engineered to cover every possible corner case.