Warp wrote:
>   Btw, why are some websites choosing to use proprietary Microsoft
> technology, namely silverlight? Didn't the world learn anything from
> the IE-only-webpages fiasco?

Why SilverLight? Why Flash? Why JavaFX?

Because it looks slick, and you can't do it using only W3C standards.

>   According to them, "the Webby Awards is the leading international
> award honoring excellence on the Internet."
> 
> Why is some of their content only available to people using a certain OS?

FAIL.

I'm sorry, anybody who claims to be "honoring excellence" while 
committing an atrocity like this is clearly not worth listening to.

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