Ben Collier

The HTML5 Boilerplate build script can auto gen­er­ate your manifest.appcache file but it doesn’t out of the box.

Slightly hid­den away in the docs:

To enable the appcache, just uncom­ment the file.manifest line in the project.properties file. It’ll cre­ate a manifest.appcache file and wire it all up.

You’ll find the project.properties file in build/project.

Now just do ant build and your HTML5 mani­fest file will be cre­ated and auto­mat­ic­ally ref­er­enced in your HTML file.