Fixing float margins in IE

This week’s Design and Usability Tactics newsletter describes two ways to fix float margins in IE. One involves a simple CSS hack. The second solution is hack-free, but it requires rethinking the approach to specifying the spacing between the boxes.

How do you deal with browser problems such as IE’s doubled margins on floats? Do you have a favorite alternative to a commonly used CSS hack? Or, do you think it’s not worth the trouble to search for a hack-free alternative when there’s a documented hack available that addresses the problem?