Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling

By Thierry Koblentz
Editors Note: In his first article for Think Vitamin Thierry Koblentz discusses the issue of “resetting” your CSS.
“base.css” versus “reset.css”
For a long time, the very first line in my styles sheets was:
* {padding:0;margin:0;}
This simple rule was very convenient as it leveled margin and padding values of all elements across browsers. [...]