Bruce rather undermines his arguments for using so-called “Conditional Comments” by giving out the venerable but outdated “Tantek voice-family hack”. His argument about an extra style sheet requiring an extra HTTP request really does not hold much water. One extra “hit” to the server is pretty insignificant, and once the style sheet is in the browser’s memory (“cache”) no more requests are needed.

See the Wiki at CSS-DISCUSS for alternatives. (My favorite is “box in a box” which does not rely on browser bugs at all.)

Not mentioned in the article is the way “Conditional Comments” can be used to hide code from IE, as well as the other way ’round. See Microsoft’s explanation.

Cordially, David.