HTML5 Boilerplate (html5boilerplate.com)

HTML5 Boilerplate is a project aimed at utilizing Paul Irish's fantastical HTML5 boilerplate as a starter for your sub-themes in Drupal 7. The intent is to create a rock solid parent theme with all of the startup critical thinking being done for you and working perfectly out of the box. It's pretty much coated entirely in awesome sauce.

To use Dictionary.com's reference, a boilerplate is "a copy made with the intention of making other copies from it".

html5boilerplate.com - "HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.

After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain Ajax and Flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on.

Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed."