iandevlin/html5bones — pull request #2 by simonsarris (2012-12-20 18:24:50+00:00)
Title: A slimming proposal for making it more barebones, while keeping the current index.html around as a good example

I apologize in advance, it feels extremely rude to suggest a sweeping change to someone else's project.

Alas:

I don't think the index.html as-is is a particularly good starting page for a template. It has a lot of comments, some of them superfluous, like the meta charset comment ``, which is akin to the old joke comment `i++; // adds 1 to i`.

Using it as a template, every single time there would be a lot that I am chopping from it, slimming down, and cleaning up. I think generally a cleaner index.html would be benefiical for an HTML5 Bones template.

I *do* think the index.html has a lot of utility as it is written, since it shows a lot of very nice best practices for HTML5.

So I propose two things:

1. Renaming index.html to index-example.html.
2. Severely slimming down index.html, and adding TODO:'s so that people clearly know what must be filled in within the pieces already written.

What do you think?