Exposing Reset Style Sheets
Post from May 15, 2011 (↻ October 19, 2022), filed under Web Development (feed).
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Messing around a bit I wrote a little Chrome extension to display reset style sheets. I just liked the idea of learning when a website is taking a styling detour. The extension’s source code—essentially a tiny style sheet that assumes that the more common resets have not been renamed—is open and available on GitHub.
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