Adobe’s Spin Fact Checked

Jared Jurkiewicz, long time Dojo contributor takes issue with a recent online “performance testing application” that has been pushed out by Adobe Evangelist James Ward. Having read through Jared’s post I have to say it looks like the original application seems pretty flawed and shouldn’t be used as an example of a benchmark. It seems that Adobe is employing generous amounts of Spin that they should maybe go into politics. Of course the issue is, that the benchmark page will be emailed around business users, who will see how “fancy” it looks, and how outrageous the differences in speed are, they will then make business decisions based off it that will trickle down to technical implementations. If you put enough polish on a half truth it’ll make it harder to debunk.