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by happycube 4857 days ago
Mercer is a bit... biased. He was pushing a debased Java system that took five lines of code to center text, and couldn't implement Duarte's ideas properly. So webOS becoming, well, webOS was in reaction to that and a rushed effort to come up with something else in time for CES 2009.

The Palm folks then spent too many months de-Mercerizing the code for webOS 2.0...