2006 Webby Award Winners Announced

Wired is reporting that the winners for the 2006 Webby Awards have been announced and the usual suspects have dominated the scene. From the article: "With a record 65 award categories, this year's Webby honorees ranged from well-known sites like the (Washington Post, a popular vote winner for best newspaper site, to more obscure newcomers, like Remember Segregation, named best home page. As in years past, the honoree list included several winners of multiple awards, along with perennial favorites that have won Webbys previously."

Comments

Webbies? How about the Flashies?

[Makenai]

Seriously, can they rename these things the flashies? Withouth the plugin, I can't see 90% of the pages up there. Shouldn't RememberSegregation.com be in HTML and compatible across all browsers for equality? They don't even have a separate but equal HTML version. No flash, no cigar.

PERSONAL WEB SITE

[mapkinase]

I would personally kill the PERSONAL WEB SITE winner for messing with the size of my Firefox window. I wonder how come such arrogant annoyance of a site can win in any category?

Always remember segregation

[Anonymous Coward]

Those that do not remember to separate content from presentation are doomed to repeat separating content from presentation.

I'm 32.

[ClioCJS]

And I guarantee my computers do more than yours. Since you can't even visit a page using 5+-year-old technology. You are an internet luddite.

Flash is just glitz. Yes, anyone who puts information that you are searching for into a flash needs to be shot. But there's more to life than textual information. We have gone way past the days of Lynx and Gopher, which I remember fondly.

You, sir, resist progress. Here's a bad car metaphor (seems to be a slashdot thing): You want a corvette, but you are unwilling to do so beucase you don't want chrome. Instead, you drive an Amish horse cart.

And please.... "Untrusted 3rd party ap"? Yes, Al Queda is going to install something on your computer that kills you, but only if Sony has rootkitted you first. Please. Anything with 90% market penetration is de facto more trusted than most things.

But I bet you don't have a problem with open source software. And I bet you don't see how that makes you a hypcrite either.

So to summarize: You believe in your ideals to the point where you will cripple your own ability to work outside your own very-narrow confines.

Oh, and some levity: Maybe you should just use the JAWS screen-reader and only visit 508-complaint Flash sites. You'll get your text equivalent then.

Re:Flash *IS* cross-browser.

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Flash has penetrated over 90% of the userbase of both browsers.

But everybody still hates it.

Flash is like Chicken Pox. You know you have to get it eventually, and you're sort of grateful that you did. But the expierience is often very ichy and nauseating.