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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@fvsch Real points, in so far as we can tell how big the device is.
@andreasgal What are you in PHL for? Or just didn't know it's a bad idea to change planes there?
@dveditz Other than a user style sheet, no. But overriding may be a bad idea, given that authors using probably have considered phones.
New blog entry: Improving font size readability on Firefox for Android: dbaron.org/log/20111126-font…
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@beltzner Mine was g.co/maps/xbttd , though for some silly reason I took the bus in in the morning. #walk #school
@slightlylate @sgalineau @hsivonen But the standard advice is to do what prefixfree does automatically: write with all prefixes and w/o.
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@slightlylate @sgalineau @hsivonen And if authors don't use the unprefixed form in their sheet then it hurts long-run browser competition.
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@slightlylate @sgalineau @hsivonen If authors use the unprefixed form in their sheet, prefixes don't protect the namespace from pollution.
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I hope the recent fight over <time> doesn't mean the spec for it is frozen or fixable only by the heavyweight change proposal process.
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I agree with @hsivonen that vendor prefixes have failed. We still need to avoid non-interop disasters they were for, maybe with tests.
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@divya @mezzoblue Firefox still has a fast path for small sizes and simple (e.g., Western) languages, t-r:optimizeLegibility opts out.
@tabatkins @LeaVerou ¿Ahora? ¿Cuál dialecto? Y creo que la gramática no es tan facil.
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@rem For unusual definitions of "now" and "has", perhaps.
You may think you're getting an extra hour of sleep tonight, but after changing all the clocks it's only 55 minutes or so.
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@meyerweb @mollydotcom Would you be ok with "circle" instead of "shape circle"?
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