I find this quite an interesting subject at the moment, there seems to be two contrasting views to what works well and it was brought up again at the Future of Web Design in both the conference talk by Jon Hicks and mentioned briefly by Jina Bolton and Andy Clarke in Jina’s workshop on CSS. [...]
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/15/resetting-again/
This is a really interesting article from Eric Meyer, I have often used the basic
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0;
etc
}
In my CSS markup, it makes so much more sense to get very specific with the reset and make sure everything is covered.
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, [...]
I had an interesting moment at christmas. We have been working like crazy on our new web project (touchlocal.com) to get it live, as part of this I had been covering some basics of accessibility but it had not really been an area we had touched on properly because of the time restraints. So in [...]
There seems to be some real shake ups happening in the web standards word, check some of these links, they provide really interesting reading!
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