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by pjungwir 892 days ago
Re the stuff about @-moz-document at the end, does anyone remember exploiting IE bugs in parsing CSS to present different rules for IE vs firefox, especially to work around IE's broken box model? I remember actually using this[0] hack somewhere long ago:

    div.content { 
      width:400px; 
      voice-family: "\"}\""; 
      voice-family:inherit;
      width:300px;
    }
I can't believe the stuff we used to go through.

[0] http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

2 comments

Anyone remember the Meyer CSS reset?

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

Version 1 was published in 2008:

    /* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ */
    /* v1.0 | 20080212 */
    
    html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
    h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
    a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
    del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
    small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
    b, u, i, center,
    dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
    fieldset, form, label, legend,
    table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      border: 0;
      outline: 0;
      font-size: 100%;
      vertical-align: baseline;
      background: transparent;
    }
    body {
      line-height: 1;
    }
    ol, ul {
      list-style: none;
    }
    blockquote, q {
      quotes: none;
    }
    blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
    q:before, q:after {
      content: '';
      content: none;
    }
    
    /* remember to define focus styles! */
    :focus {
      outline: 0;
    }
    
    /* remember to highlight inserts somehow! */
    ins {
      text-decoration: none;
    }
    del {
      text-decoration: line-through;
    }
    
    /* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
    table {
      border-collapse: collapse;
      border-spacing: 0;
    }
Yes, but than the <!--[if IE]> and friends made those hacks pretty rare.