Sometimes, the best solution is to use both. Sometimes, it is to use neither. And sometimes, it is to use one or the other. If you want all the styles, including margin and padding reset across all browsers, use reset.css. Then apply all decorations and stylings yourself. If you simply like the built-in stylings but want more cross-browser synchronicity i.e. normalizations then use normalize.css. But if you choose to use both reset.css and normalize.css, link the reset.css stylesheet first and then the normalize.css stylesheet (immediately) afterwards. Sometimes it's not always a matter of which is better, but when to use which one versus when to use both versus when to use neither. IMHO.