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Writings of a Page Load Speed Geek
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Writings of a Page Load Speed Geek is a personal blog at css-class.com about web and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this site's test page of browser default (user-agent) stylesheets in threads on CSS resets and normalizing. Commenters use it to ask why links are blue and underlined by default.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaults.htm3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-26
What Hacker News says?
Random question: I was looking at [1], linked by Normalize. How come the element HTML element "A" has no default values? It sure seems to always be blue/purple and underlined... Thanks in advance. [1] http://css-class.com/test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaul...
Comment linking /test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaults.htm
on “Normalize.css: An alternative to CSS resets”These kinds of resets often seem like overkill. Are there any reset libraries out there that do the bare minimum by normalizing against user agent defaults? I.e., those described here: http://css-class.com/test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaul...
Comment linking /test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaults.htm
on “Reset v2.0”Browser stylesheets are well-known, default styles testable, and yet most resets still nuke everything "just in case". http://css-class.com/test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaul... There are only few differences that could break layout. Hard problems are caused by different interpretation of applied styles, not because of defaults. In case of form elements (which are underspecified in CSS), touching their style ca…
Comment linking /test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaults.htm
on “Should You Reset Your CSS?”