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
There are outbreaks. There are epidemics. Then, there are pandemics. Coronavirus is almost there. wapo.st/2Pe2sDy @ByLenaSun @thewanreport @joelachenbach @Min_Joo_Kim_
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And it's worth thinking about given the popularity of frameworks with a programming model where the developer maps application state to a virtual DOM tree, and the framework then rectifies that virtual DOM into a minimal set of modifications to the real DOM.
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This is important for various ways that browsers adapt pages to devices or to the needs or preferences of users, from screen readers, to scroll anchoring, to ad blocking.
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In other words, it's important that the browser can recognize that a section of the page, or a heading, or a paragraph, is the same section/heading/paragraph that it was a minute ago, even as the page is dynamically changing.
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Briefly, what I argue in it as that while we talk often about semantic markup, there's another piece that's probably even more important that we think about less, which is persistent object identity in the DOM.
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I just posted a new blog post (it's been a while): Semantic markup, browsers, and identity in the DOM
dbaron.org/log/20200221-dom-…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In the immediate run up to the U.S. presidential election and on Election Day, the homepage of YouTube is set to advertise just one candidate: Donald Trump.
great scoop @mhbergen @joshuabrustein bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: House Intelligence briefing on election threats and Russia's continuned favoring of Trump's election led to the Oval Office confrontation between Trump and Maguire. nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/po…
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Did anybody else get signed out of *all* of their slack tabs over the last few minutes?
(Also, for logging back in to 2 of 5 of them, I got "too many login failures" on the first try, and then the same login/password worked on the next try... which required doing a CAPTCHA.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
CALIFORNIA: If you do not register to vote or re-register by MIDNIGHT, you will have to do so in-person at your county elections office, vote center, or polling place.
Don't miss the chance to take advantage of easy online voter reg at RegisterToVote.ca.gov #VoteCalifornia
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The lack of this has three failure modes for me:
- I mute the channel, and then don't look at it for months, despite meaning to
- Slack unread tab icon interrupts me when I'm better off not interrupted
- I ignore Slack unread tab icon when it's important (small team channel)
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I wish @SlackHQ had the ability to half-mute a channel, where new messages in the channel would still make it bold (maybe in a different way) in the channel list, but where they would *not* cause the Slack tab icon to brighten to indicate that there are unread messages in Slack.
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The last six are:
45 Iowa 14.6%
46 Montana 14.1%
47 New Hampshire 10.2%
48 West Virginia 8.0%
49 Vermont 7.4%
50 Maine 7.0%
For what it's worth, the top five states (with DC and PR included but not numbered) are:
- Puerto Rico 99.0%
1 Hawaii 78.3%
2 California 63.4%
3 New Mexico 63.1%
- District of Columbia 63.1%
4 Texas 58.6%
5 Nevada 51.6%
(that's all the majority-minority ones)
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Of the 50 states:
Iowa has the 45th-highest percentage minority (*) population (14.6%)
New Hampshire is 47th (10.2%)
Nevada is 5th (51.6%)
South Carolina is 19th (36.5%).
US overall: 39.8%.
(*) other than non-hispanic white, using 2018 ACS data at data.census.gov/cedsci/table…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This rape victim should have been a slam-dunk case for a u-visa, for victims who help law enforcement.
USCIS rejected her application anyway -- b/c her son lacks a middle name.
The new Trump policy to reject applications if they have *any* blank fields: washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Ped Observations: The Importance of Decarbonizing Transport pedestrianobservations.com/2…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
We can't let the most important upzoning bill in the state's history die on the vine like this. @GavinNewsom, please step in and keep the conversation going. Every renter, every young person, everyone who cares about an equitable society needs your help.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Thread: Of all California housing stories, none are as odd as the 8-year saga of the @SunsetAndGordon apts in Hollywood. In 2015, historic preservationists won a lawsuit that led to permits getting revoked after tenants had moved in, evicting everyone. msn.com/en-us/money/realesta… 1/
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