HTML5 Reset
html5reset.org
html5reset.org
Is "resetting" of font, applet and center really needed for new HTML5 pages?
Default styles are in the HTML5 spec. Actual stylesheets of all major browsers are available in their source repos or via introspection. For compatibility reasons there's really no need to reset everything "just in case". There are few specific styles which are annoyingly inconsistent. None of them are on kbd, u, strike, tfoot, label and dozen other elements that reset nukes.
I found that reset causes more trouble than it solves. Form elements don't react consistently to reset styles - it's better to keep browser's defaults.
WYSIWYG editors don't play nicely with reset (and sooner or later client might ask you for such editor).
And finally designers rarely bother to actually do what Mayer recommended for reset. They leave some styles reset to useless defaults, which makes it unnecessarily difficult to use pure semantic HTML later. Lack of outline is harmful to keyboard users.
For HTML5 reset it would be useful to set default styles for section, article, header and other elements that are unknown to HTML4 browsers. It doesn't do that...
I'm all for it, but it should weigh much less.
Does it really need modernizr and jquery?
Could it not have merged the css files that call each other?
They make me, the developer, work so much harder, cause me so many more headaches, make my fingers type more, adds so much more code to the codebase, has all sorts of useless crap, and did I mention they make it harder on the developers?
regardless I took a look.
I downloaded the bare-bones one just to take a look around. 3 css files none more then 60 lines. using the always frowned upon @import command.
The _print css made me laugh. There is a main.css and a core.css. The core.css is empty and the main.css just says to import core.css. A lot of good thats gonna do.
I have no idea why a "HTML5" reset would have style sheets for IE5?
Horrible.. waste of time, to even use. Even worse because it has the nasty, awful meyerweb reset.
It's a template, you're supposed to remove the bits you don't need.
The function of a HTML reset file is to ensure browsers on all systems behave the same way, but in this instance it appears to me that the author hasn't tested his own page on windows or perhaps just in Chrome, which would suggest that it might not good advice to use his reset file.
Everyone complains when its awful code. Everyone enjoys good code.
One thing I've just followed through is to merge my print styles (which tend to be minimal, turn off fancy images, remove some formatting) into my main CSS file - it was a Google page optimisation recommendation. I'm also using a reset based on YUI but without the non-standards IE hack; copy pasted to avoid a linked file as it's a single page "tool".