Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-14 Thread Gabriele Romanato
We're going a little off-topic here. ;-) My point is not about tags, but about how a CSS reset should be used. Eric's reset is a general-purpose tool that should be always tailored to your specific needs and not copied and pasted without knowing exactly what it does (as many authors do). Since CSS

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Andrew Cunningham wrote: if you consider and elements to be purely presentational, then I guess you can leave browsers to their own devices. But I work on sites that are multilingual and where user generated content could be in any language, so if these elememts are purely presentational the

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Looks both interesting and potentially useful. Thank you. Philip Taylor Kuzeko Web Design - Matteo Lissandrini wrote: Then you all need to appreciate this: http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/ __ css-discuss [css

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Kuzeko Web Design - Matteo Lissandrini
Then you all need to appreciate this: http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/ -- Kuzeko On 13 August 2012 22:31, John D wrote: > > > The only CSS reset I normally use is this: > > * { > margin: 0; > padding: 0; > border: 0; > } > > This covers almost everything a

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread John D
The only CSS reset I normally use is this: * { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; } This covers almost everything and you can now control the tags because of not many things to worry about. > > I've been working on a mini project to make Eric Meyers reset a little > more useful

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On Monday, 13 August 2012, Philip TAYLOR > > i.e., leave font-weight and style to the browser, which can be relied > on to do the intelligent thing. > if you consider and elements to be purely presentational, then I guess you can leave browsers to their own devices. But I work on sites that are

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Gabriele Romanato wrote: > In this case, resets should be rewritten in a way that allows you to > leave some browser's default styles intact or at least not > overwritten. Consider this: > > b, i { >font-style: normal; >font-weight: normal; > } > > If you forget to redefine your styles

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Hi, CSS resets are useful (I mean, really useful) on a specific range of projects. For example, they're useful on web apps because they can also be combined with other frameworks to get you started ASAP. They're less useful when a significant portion of your site contents are generated by users (su

[css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Mark Durrant
Hi all. I've been working on a mini project to make Eric Meyers reset a little more useful for me. The basic Idea is to use Sass to give the reset a few options. Full source, demo, & docs can be found here => https://github.com/pebblecode/PCR I'd love to get some feedback on this. Whether the im