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Why should I use conditional style sheets?

The question covers most of them, but I'm trying to present a well-formulated argument in favor of a senior developer who wants to abandon conditional stylesheets altogether (IE6, mobile, etc.). Keep in mind that we are not actually eliminating IE6, just a stylesheet.

Or am I crazy and should just accept it?

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Which alternative? CSS hacks?

I have conditional style sheets for IE7 and IE6. This shares the fixes for these specific browsers. When making changes, it easily allows testing / fixing in standards browsers, testing / fixing in IE7, and then testing / fixing in IE6. Testing is more natural. It does not violate standards, it’s easy, and it’s basically free. It makes sense to explain why you will not use them.

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You can look at Yahoo Reset CSS Library . He eliminated the need for conditional style sheets in many of the projects I did.

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You should not. With enough work, both popular browsers can be made to make the page the same way. Take mine , for example, complex, but simple at the same time.

[edit: changed "never" to "you should not", thinking that the name is indicated "when"]

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If you can satisfy your needs without conditional style sheets, then, in any case, it’s nice to have a single style sheet for all browsers. However, if you cannot do this without losing functionality, then a good enough argument should be presented to justify the transition to a single stylesheet.

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Because IE 6 and IE 7 are broken down in various well-known ways. Conditional style sheets that modulate corrections are the easiest and most supported way to deal with these interruptions.

When you say that your senior developer wants to “abandon” conditional style sheets, what exactly does this mean?

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