Jakob Nielsen interviewed

Brett Archibald speaks to the king of usability, Jakob Nielsen, over at pixelsurgeon.

Pixelsurgeon:

How can designers create attractive interesting sites, and still expect everyone to see them the way they intend them to be seen if different browsers, after all this time, and talk of standardisation, STILL render HTML pages differently?

Jakob:

You cannot. All you can do is to optimise for the most common cases and then make sure that the design is still reasonably good for all the other cases. Perfection under all circumstances is impossible