$font-color: #444 !default;  //looks better than black: twitter.com/H_FJ/statuses/11800719859
$link-color: #607890 !default;
$link-hover-color: #036 !default;
$link-active-color: #607890 !default;
$link-visited-color: #607890 !default;
$selected-font-color: #fff !default;
$selected-background-color: #ff5e99 !default;
$list-left-margin: 2em !default;


@mixin html5-boilerplate-styles {
  /*
   * minimal base styles
   */
  
  
  body, select, input, textarea {
    /* #444 looks better than black: twitter.com/H_FJ/statuses/11800719859 */
    color: $font-color;
    /* set your base font here, to apply evenly */
    font-family: $base-font-family;
  }

  /* headers (h1,h2,etc) have no default font-size or margin. define those yourself. */
  h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { font-weight: bold; }

  /* always force a scrollbar in non-IE: */
  html { overflow-y: scroll; }


  /* accessible focus treatment: people.opera.com/patrickl/experiments/keyboard/test */
  a:hover, a:active { outline: none; }

  a, a:active, a:visited { color: $link-color; }
  a:hover { color: $link-hover-color; }


  ul, ol { margin-left: $list-left-margin; }
  ol { list-style-type: decimal; }

  /* remove margins for navigation lists */
  nav ul, nav li { margin: 0; list-style:none; list-style-image: none; }

  small { font-size: 85%; }
  strong, th { font-weight: bold; }

  td { vertical-align: top; }

  /* set sub, sup without affecting line-height: gist.github.com/413930 */
  sub, sup { font-size: 75%; line-height: 0; position: relative; }
  sup { top: -0.5em; }
  sub { bottom: -0.25em; }

  pre {
    /* www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/05/formatting-quoted-code-in-blog-posts-css21-white-space-pre-wrap/ */
    white-space: pre; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre-line; word-wrap: break-word;
    padding: 15px;
  }

  textarea { overflow: auto; } /* www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/08/20/ie-remove-textarea-scrollbars/ */

  .ie6 legend, .ie7 legend { margin-left: -7px; } /* thnx ivannikolic! */

  /* align checkboxes, radios, text inputs with their label by: Thierry Koblentz tjkdesign.com/ez-css/css/base.css  */
  input[type="radio"] { vertical-align: text-bottom; }
  input[type="checkbox"] { vertical-align: bottom; }
  .ie7 input[type="checkbox"] { vertical-align: baseline; }
  .ie6 input { vertical-align: text-bottom; }

  /* hand cursor on clickable input elements */
  label, input[type="button"], input[type="submit"], input[type="image"], button { cursor: pointer; }

  /* webkit browsers add a 2px margin outside the chrome of form elements */
  button, input, select, textarea { margin: 0; }

  /* colors for form validity */
  input:invalid, textarea:invalid {
    @include border-radius(1px);
    @include box-shadow(red, 0, 0, 5px, 0);
  }
  .no-boxshadow input:invalid, .no-boxshadow textarea:invalid { background-color: #f0dddd; }


  /* These selection declarations have to be separate.
     No text-shadow: twitter.com/miketaylr/status/12228805301
     Also: hot pink. */
  ::-moz-selection{ background: $selected-background-color; color: $selected-font-color; text-shadow: none; }
  ::selection { background: $selected-background-color; color: $selected-font-color; text-shadow: none; }

  /*  j.mp/webkit-tap-highlight-color */
  a:link { -webkit-tap-highlight-color: $selected-background-color; }

  /* make buttons play nice in IE:
     www.viget.com/inspire/styling-the-button-element-in-internet-explorer/ */
  button {  width: auto; overflow: visible; }

  /* bicubic resizing for non-native sized IMG:
     code.flickr.com/blog/2008/11/12/on-ui-quality-the-little-things-client-side-image-resizing/ */
  .ie7 img { -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; }
}