Presumably the greatest minds in computer science sat down and decided that silverlight was the optimum technology Or perhaps they were suspended over a tank o

Presumably the greatest minds in computer science sat down and decided that silverlight was the optimum technology Or perhaps they were suspended over a tank of piranha by an evil laughing Bill Gates somewhere in the basement of http://cs.stanford.edu/info/gates http://cs.stanford.edu/info/gates Or perhaps they just out sourced the web design to the cheapest company who happened to use Silverlight.