FSS Reset

[Johnny Taylor]

Hey,

Anastasia, my apologies, I meant to reply to you our reset adventures just prior to you posting your pull request on Thursday. But I got side tracked with silly issues (which were a result from my laziness -- it's easier to change the case of a file name on the server than change the instance where it is called for in the sites head, in this case, itself) for a day and a half. Lessons learned. And I thought a reply to you, by this point, would better be directed to the list than to you, exclusively. 

When we were fixing my reset issue -- which essentially consisted of swapping out Harry Roberts' Vanilla (I can't get a certain song outta my head when thinking of that name -- I'm not sure if the term "vanilla" was meant to represent "convention," but if it was it's incredibly relevant and funny) "restart" for the FSS reset and dropping fss-base-global.css from fss-reset.css, by the way -- I wasn't content with how I styled FSSFive if the FSS reset was changing the layout in any noticeable way -- not that I've re-implemented fss-base-global, yet. 

For the record, Anastasia, a shrinking layout wasn't all I experienced back when I tried to implement the FSS reset. I had some peculiar float issues, as well. Which were obviously my fault, but got fixed subsequent to my trying, without even realizing there was a problem. I love it when that happens.

Long story shorter -- it's much too late for short sadly -- it boiled down to me putting the font rules on the body "tag" versus html "tag." Most of it is fixed. Still more to fix in my styles. But, as always, questions arose. Why the imports? Reason I asked are given FSSFive is a shipping WordPress theme (meaning all the roots of the file paths pointing to the css files in the head, for instance, need to be requested from the server, as they are different on every site depending on the domain and where WordPress is installed) and the server resources themselves, or I imagine they, are rather significant despite calling in all those style sheets. And yes I realize how silly it is for me to be hung up on two style sheet imports, but I've noticed many other css files in that directory and I'm wondering how they get used. Anyone? Sorry for all the babble. And I still have some work to do but there might be one more concern, with the reset and list-styles. Why is it so bloody cold in my house?!

But I noticed the reset is inefficient, in at least one instance, between the two files. With respect to the headings. One sheet is calling for a font-weight of normal, while subsequently setting it to bold in the other. Is there a reason  for this?

Anyway thanks again Anastasia and Colin for your help this week. It's much appreciated...

Johnny
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