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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Good for Bloomberg: http://bit.ly/byzmUT
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Intuit lobbying to make sure filing taxes stays hard (so they can sell more tax preparation software): http://is.gd/dZ3c9
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Replying to @hsivonen
@hsivonen Generally better not to put out forest fires, since that leaves more to burn for next time (when it becomes harder to put out).
Work remaining on width:calc(): (1) figure out what it means inside tables (2) write tests (and fix the bugs they catch)
Replying to @aza
@azaaza Telling people to turn off updates could be a little dangerous. They might not turn them back on.
@johnolilly The limit is supposed to be 100mL, which is 3.4 fl. oz. http://www.tsa.gov/311/
Another good Paul Graham article: The Top Idea in Your Mind: http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
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The End Of The Fox News Era (E.J. Dionne Jr.): http://bit.ly/cggizV We can hope, at least.
What's an "actual technical objection" to a change proposal that doesn't make any actual technical changes? #htmlwg #issue101
http://iwl.me/ says my most recent blog entry is written like Isaac Asimov but most of the rest are written like Cory Doctorow
Interesting blog post from Kristof (especially about the way he chooses to write to get more people's attention): http://nyti.ms/9F1qyk
Sitting at the gate at SFO due to maintenance paperwork. ETA unknown. UA474 #moz10
Replying to @glazou
@glazou http://www.identifont.com/identify.html is good for that
@NomDuClavier mostly still correct, I think, though new optimizations have improved coalescing and skipping work that's not needed
Instead of limiting credit card fees, Congress should ban contracts preventing retailers from passing fees or other costs on to customers.
Surprised by today's (tomorrow's?) events in Australian politics. I had a good view of Rudd, but can't say I was really paying attention.
I have transitioning of transforms working, at least for simple cases. We probably need to do something about text rendering, though.
Spent much of today implementing limited calc() for some transform functions and, using that, making progress on animation of transforms.
I removed Adobe Flash from my computer a few days ago since Adobe didn't ship the security updates for the 64-bit Linux version.