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by jasonlotito 5616 days 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.
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stephencelis 5616 days 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).
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jasonlotito 5615 days ago
Gotcha. But still, the chart is old, and lacks browsers people use. The benefit of the CSS reset is that it resets everything in browsers so everything is equal. Normalization wouldn't exactly do that. And if things changed, the normalization would have to change as well.

Good idea, but practically speaking, I think it defeats the purpose.

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stephencelis 5615 days ago
Perhaps, but both the Mozilla and WebKit stylesheets are available for reference in their respective repositories (and likely unchanged, for the most part), and IE9's purported stylesheet is here: http://www.iecss.com/

It would be doable to keep up to date if someone wanted to, though whether it's worth the effort is another thing entirely.

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