[evandavid]

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...

[pornel]

> 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.

[mjuhl24]

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.

[rimantas]

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.