i’d like to think that css experts would promote standing back for a minute and seeing if you could try different markup and presentational ways to get your desired result rather than — as is too common the case now — immediately blaming the problem browser and adding some form of hack (conditional comments included).

incidentally, the .1%? form elements. but it’s very rare that the inconsistent padding that IE forces on form elements is going to wreck your layouts.

I just finished reading Andy Budd’s CSS Mastery. All those points above are well covered in the book. Good read.

An extra one, would be;

Build from the inside out. Put margins and paddings on the most inner element if possible. You will avoid many differences between IE and other browsers.