Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A fed agency has proposed revisions to the nation's traffic manual. W/ road deaths & climate change surging, stakes of speed couldn’t be higher. Profs
@sarabronin (@CornellLaw) & @greg_shill (@IowaLawSchool) argue #MUTCD should be scrapped & rewritten ➡️ harvardlawreview.org/2021/10…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Rather than looking at log4j as a case study in funding (how would funding have prevented this?), I think there is a case study to be made about project and brand hand-off. I claim that a substantial part of log4j 2.x adoption was driven by reputational momentum of log4j 1.x …
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For how long after the pandemic ends (if it ends) will we keep finding masks in our coat pockets?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Our tendency on covid has been to lean into the culture war aspects and that’s why we’ve focused so much on masks to the exclusion of less controversial measures like improved ventilation. This has been a harmful tendency imo
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I would not describe myself as, like, exuberantly pro-travel-ban but these people make such a fuss about their profession being evidenced-based and the evidence is that the countries with the best handle on covid have done so partly through travel restrictions
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
On “Trojan Source” Attacks
— research.swtch.com/trojan
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
My view departs from urbanist consensus here in that the solution to this involves much more enforcement. That that term conjures up armed, immunized agents of the state rather than unarmed, automated cameras is a product of law & politics, not something intrinsic to enforcement.
New: U.S. traffic deaths soar in 2021 -- up 18.4% in first half of 2021 as American drivers continue more unsafe driving that began during the pandemic lockdowns
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These are steps towards making 3D transforms more predictable for developers and more interoperable between browsers. Other browser engines have been making progress on this path too, and there should be more to come.
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In Chrome 94, the changes (started by @chrishtr) described in groups.google.com/a/chromium… and docs.google.com/document/d/1… shipped, changing how transform-style:preserve-3d and perspective interact with the DOM tree.
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In Chrome 93 values less than 1px of the perspective property and perspective() transform function get clamped to 1px, and 0 is no longer special. For more information see the post at groups.google.com/a/chromium… and the change at chromium.googlesource.com/ch… .
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Lately I've been working on CSS 3D transforms in Chrome (and on the CSS spec at drafts.csswg.org/css-transfo… ). A few of the things I've been working on have shipped recently in Chrome. (Thread)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Another RenderingNG deep-dive for you! This time on LayoutNG, our brand-new, compete rewrite of all of layout for massively improved reliability and extensibility for future use cases. By @bfgeek and @kojiishi, with another cool illustration from @Una.
developer.chrome.com/blog/la…
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Gosh, if it didn't say "Eat after cooking", would anyone eat them first and then follow the cooking instructions?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
"COVID-19 has prompted a universal awakening about the power of our buildings to make us sick or keep us well. At this point, really, who wants to go back to a building that isn’t healthy?"
My article in @TheAtlantic
#HealthyBuildings
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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For me, the most confusing thing about switching between Chrome and Firefox is finding "Reopen Closed Tab":
- in Chrome, it's in the context menu for the empty space on the tab strip, but not in the one on a tab;
- in Firefox, it's the reverse.
I regularly click the wrong one.
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Somehow the ad seems appropriate given the topic (though poorly targeted). Seen on nytimes.com/2021/09/24/opini…
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