I suspect that the author references HTML5Boilerplate in an inflammatory way in order to get us talking about it. I view the HTML5Boilerplate as a cross-browse

I suspect that the author references HTML5Boilerplate in an inflammatory way in order to get us talking about it. I view the HTML5Boilerplate as a cross-browser-reset and sensible defaults for everything else. If those defaults don't work for the author, he could fork it on github and change them.