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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So the next game of fiscal chicken will be over the gas tax? nyti.ms/oyaJ7V And it's just 6 weeks away?
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Christina Romer agrees we need more short-term stimulus: nyti.ms/r0tbRC
I submitted a talk proposal for SXSW on browser internals, CSS, and performance: panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/v… . Voting is now open.
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@annevk @zcorpan developer.mozilla.org/en/Moz… updated for the text-decoration stuff; somebody I should do a full update
text-decoration in Firefox nightlies now follows CSS 2.1 in standards and quirks modes (but 3 small quirks remain): bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
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What's the point of negotiators who have pledged not to negotiate? theatlantic.com/politics/arc… by @JamesFallows
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Visualize bay area quakes: quake.abag.ca.gov/shaking/ma… Key distance is to closest point on rupture line (really plane in 3D), not to epicenter.
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@sgalineau For the record, I haven't experimented with whether 4 vs. 5 (Nicky vs. Pratt) or 7 vs. 8 (HW vs. co-HW) differ in appearance.
@sgalineau I think you really want tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/tie… (especially numbers 2, 4, 8, and 31, which self-release, i.e., not 5 and 7)
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Should we really be surprised that people confuse debt ($) with deficit ($/year) when news reports pretend they have the same units?
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Tired of debt/GDP ratios given in %. debt is in $ and GDP in $/year, therefore debt/GDP is in years (or other units of time).
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A hard part of code review: avoiding "we've never done it that way" and instead figuring out why, and if new way is ok (or better)
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.@jswalden made Gecko do background-size correctly for all types of SVG images. Tests contributed to CSSWG too. bugzil.la/609714
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A higher gasoline tax would be better, but this is a big step forward: Obama Announces Fuel Rules for Heavy Vehicles: nyti.ms/o8vddq
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@beltzner I think the issue was that the first few tweets pointed to the wrong David Baron.
US bonds downgraded → investors get scared → investors flock to safe assets → increased demand for US bonds
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Boy, now *Switzerland* is devaluing to compensate for the weakening Euro and Dollar (and march to SFr as safe asset) nyti.ms/r12uut