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April 12, 2007
Developing CSS With a Clean Slate
I had pleasure of catching Eric Meyer's presentation at An Event Apart earlier last month on the differences in the various browsers' default stylesheets- which often accounts for minor differences in rendering that can truly vex your development processes.
Eric's sage advice for 'evening the scales' was to first globally reset a baseline of elements to a consistent and known quantity (without resorting to using the universal selector, then build up your own project-specific styles upon this baseline. This greatly helps account for varying differences in box-model rendering, line height, fonts, etc. which are often interpreted in minutely-different ways by the various browsers' rendering engines. He even kindly offered to share his own version of such a 'reset' stylesheet.
What I did not know - and Eric made me aware of via his 'blog posting earlier today - is that the YUI team at Yahoo! has already published their own version of a reset.css file to do exactly this.
You can get more information at the Yahoo! UI Library site, along with extensive documentation, 'quick-start' notes, and community resources to discuss it's usage. Very handy, and definitely worth a peek if you're having issues getting pixel-perfect alignment across your test browser suite.
Posted by sfegette at April 12, 2007 10:31 AM
Comments
Apologies for being off-topic and bringing back an old post, but:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2006/03/sony_online_-_n.cfm
Does this mean that PlayStation 3 and PSP have Flash 8 support?
I thought the latest version of the SDK was Flash 7! If not, then why did Adobe refuse to deliver anything newer than Flash 7 to Nintendo and Opera for the Wii browser?
Posted by: Ritarmo at April 16, 2007 02:57 AM
Hi there- I answered you in the other post, but to be brief, that old post was regarding the Flash-based websites for those games, not the actual games or the Flash Player implementation on their respective gaming consoles. I think you may have been reading a bit more into the post than intended, unfortunately.
Posted by: Scott Fegette at April 16, 2007 07:31 AM