Reset v2.0

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/01/26/reset-v2-0/

by duck • 15 years ago

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These kinds of resets often seem like overkill. Are there any reset libraries out there that do the bare minimum by normalizing against user agent defaults?

I.e., those described here: http://css-class.com/test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaul...

evandavid• 15 years ago

I'd also like to hear some pragmatic CSS professionals weigh in on this topic. From what I've seen so far, I agree that some of the resets are over the top, but I'm not sure whether the opposition to them is a result of purism over pragmatism. I really just want to speed up CSS development...

rimantas• 15 years ago

Never use them, never will. I just don't see any benefits and I hate how reset stylesheets pollutes firebug or webinspector CSS panels with inheritance nightmare.

mjuhl24• 15 years ago

I'm finding that they are less relevant than they used to be. We are beginning to have more consistency across browsers, fortunately. I've been working on projects lately that don't employ them with very minimal issues.

pornel• 15 years ago

> I really just want to speed up CSS development...

Meyer's reset is not supposed to speed up development. On top of ensuring basic consistency, Mayer's goal is (was?) to avoid taking default styles for granted, think more about document and re-create all those styles for it:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/04/18/reset-reasoning...

If you just want consistency, but don't want to spend extra time re-creating basic defaults, then unbolding of strong, unitalicizing of em and few other such resets don't make sense.

bherms• 15 years ago

http://sixrevisions.com/css/a-comprehensive-guide-to-css-res...

Good roundup of popular resets.

alanh• 15 years ago

I don’t think this one is overkill at all. It fits in my browser window!

jasonlotito2• 15 years ago

> Are there any reset libraries out there that do the bare minimum by normalizing against user agent defaults?

Looking at that chart, and looking at Meyer's reset, I'd imagine that your suggestion would lead to a much larger CSS file. As it is, reset2 is fairly short.

stephencelis3• 15 years ago

I don't mean in bytes, I mean in how many elements it applies rules to (see rimantas' comment). I'm also not sure it _would_ lead to a much larger CSS file (only 16 tags differ among browsers, and I doubt 16 CSS rules would be required for normalization).

Reset v2.0

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