Can anyone explain how this differs at all from resets? The only difference I see on the page is:
> Preserves useful defaults
and I don't know what a "user default" is.
> Preserves useful defaults
and I don't know what a "user default" is.
<strong> elements should generally show some kind of emphasis, probably boldface, but a full CSS reset sets them back to plain text. If all you've gained from the full reset is the opportunity to forget to set them back to boldface, what was the point?
This project looks like an attempt to retain the most useful properties of a CSS reset (like consistent default element margins) while forestalling the process of redefining each element piecemeal to look pretty much like what the browser would have shown in the first place.
https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/blob/master/normali...
There's nothing earth shattering, but some things have non-zero margins, sub/sup have offsets, etc. CSS resets basically strip all default formatting, while this strips most of it.
Some css resets strip out bullet styles for lists, or focus styles on selected text boxes. I assume this keeps things like that intact instead of nuking everything.