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Re:Scribd’s HTML5 is a mess by gruseom on Saturday May 15, 2010 @01:01PM (#1350228)
This reads like self-parody. The author doesn't like the way their <P> tags are positioned. Could there be a more ridiculous criticism?

From where I stand, Scribd's HTML5 implementation (if it turns out as good as the demo) is one of the biggest leaps forward I've seen on the web in a while, as well as one of the most impressive pivots I've seen a startup make to turn a negative into a positive. It's a huge technical challenge to do what they're doing and get it right; one of those things that seems hard to people who haven't worked on it and turns out to be far harder than it seems.

There's also the minor detail that they're producing this output for an enormous class of inputs, so to nitpick the generated HTML as if it were written by hand is to miss the point colossally.

Edit: on another note, it's probably a positive sign if people with this mentality don't like your work.

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