FSS Reset

[Colin Clark]

Hey Johnny,

If I'm understanding your question correctly, the comment in fss-reset.css should say it all:

/* 
    Deprecated:
    This file is provided solely for backwards compatibility.
    It is recommended to link directly to the reset and base files as needed.
*/

The only reason fss-reset.css exists at all is to ensure we don't break backwards compatibility with users of older versions of Infusion. Users who are developing new stuff against Infusion 1.4 shouldn't use fss-reset.css at all; they should <link> the individual fss-reset-global.css and fss-base-global.css files as needed. 

The motivation for splitting the old fss-reset file into those two separate files was, if I remember correctly, to ensure that our reset wasn't been too "heavy handed" by default. Now, the reset file resets, and the base sets additional presentational styles. 

This page very briefly describes the purpose of most FSS stylesheets:

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Fluid+Skinning+System+%28FSS%29

Hope this helps,

Colin

On 2011-12-03, at 4:20 PM, Johnny Taylor wrote:

> 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?!

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
http://fluidproject.org