Yes. No. Short: Good advice, if you include your expectations as a "default" or "reset" style that is applied before. Long: This advice only works as long as

Yes. No. Short: Good advice, if you include your expectations as a "default" or "reset" style that is applied before. Long: This advice only works as long as browser vendors or users don't take up the liberty the specs grant them: to build a completely customized default ostyle (as mentioned in another comment "white page, left-aligned, black text").