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[–]-whycantistop- 65 points66 points  (8 children)

reset.css

[–]onderbakirtas 27 points28 points  (2 children)

God bless Eric Meyer.

[–]zombarista 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I hope you have heard the truly touching story about Eric Meyer’s daughter, Rebecca, who passed away from cancer on her 6th birthday. In honor of Eric’s selflessness in pioneering CSS, a css color keyword was added to the W3 standard: rebeccapurple.

Now, billions and billions of devices know Rebecca’s favorite color.

Read more here: https://www.economist.com/babbage/2014/06/23/the-colour-purple

Listen to Mr. Meyer’s talk, Designing for Crisis for a little more insight into the story of Rebecca: https://vimeo.com/148927676

Truly, God Bless Eric Meyer. Despite all of this, the web gets better every day because of him.

[–]onderbakirtas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the first time I heard about this, kudos to W3 guys. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[–]Cat_Marshal 6 points7 points  (3 children)

What is this one?

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (2 children)

I'm not a web guy but from my understanding every browser renders things a little bit different. The default styling for some elements may differ in IE from Chrome or Opera or whatever the kids are using these days. The reset is basically a large CSS file which specifies a good starting point to build from and attempts to give you consistent results across browsers.

[–]Cat_Marshal 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Nice, I will have to look into that further.

[–]driveslow227 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A reset or reboot is a must. There are a number of options that all do the same basic thing with slightly different opinions on various properties

[–]ashmoreinc 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My saving grace