What is actully harmful in to use css hacks instead of IE conditional stylesheets ?

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What is harmful in to use css hacks instead of IE conditional stylesheets. What is bad with css hack , will i get any problem in css management now or in future with hacks. I read many articles but haven't found any good reason.

adding extra external conditional stylesheet means one more HTTP request.

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