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by chipotle_coyote 2234 days ago
I suspect a little of both. Developers do like to play with cool new technologies, and product managers do like to see how spiffy they can make their products.

Having said that, though, I do not think it's a universal truth that all web sites must expand to fill all available functionality, which seems to be implicit in a lot of arguments here and in the highest-rated rebuttal to me.