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Interesting response in the comments section

http://bureau.tsailly.net/2010/11/wow-adobe-is-really-cool.h...

Whoa. I'm surprised by John's rather dickish reply to this in the comments.

He totally could have (should have) taken the high road and recognized the lacking of good typography controls. And pointed out that this was just a tech demo and Adobe's excited to do all it can to improve type on the web.

They're a little touchy over at Adobe these days.

That article would have been a lot more useful if they reduced the snark. Thank you for linking it though.

Must admit, I was surprised to see all this publicity for the demo but they have not posted a patch nor shown their code changes to the folks who maintain WebKit's text layout code.

Snark indeed. All of paragraph 5 could have been left out.

As for the communication part, there is a name which, because it is omitted with so much efforts, can only be noticed: Apple. They are working with Google to enhance Webkit, not Google and Apple, the originator of Webkit.

Apple was, apparently, so slighted by this ommission that we have to forget that Apple derived the WebKit code from KHTML. "Originated" is kind of a strong word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins

Snark indeed.

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