Theodicius
Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

I’ve been using CSS reset code for quite a while. My “weapon of choice” in that category has been Eric Meyer’s version. But lately I’ve been rethinking the proposition, mainly because of some “interesting” issues that crop up repetitively.

Most of my clients don’t accept arguments in favor of letting the user’s default font size stand, for example. And maybe I’m just too old of a code monkey but setting properties on, for example, an h1 tag that I know for a fact I’m going to change before I ever use the tag just makes my skin crawl.

So I’m leaning towards replacing the CSS Reset tool in my toolbox with something else; a CSS Defaults tool.
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My two most recent contracts have been triggering the reflective urge in me. I’ve been a user of Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal, as has been noted in these electrons before. But I’ve never been entirely satisfied with them.

I can go down a long list of little things that annoy me about each one of them, but the root cause for almost all of it is they’re just too complicated.

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