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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@beltzner @gavinsharp @dolske I seem to remember some of the need to keep doing that being related to 32-bit plugins. Still true?
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@tabatkins @divya When looked in to a Gecko bug in Wave, it seemed more email-ish. Was the good stuff Google-internal?
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@pcwalton I'll write it up at github.com/dbaron/inlines-an… .
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@pcwalton Yeah, I should write it up. It'll be longish, so probably not immediately, though quicker since I've explained it verbally.
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@divya I don't think I ever understood what it was supposed to be. Is there a decent explanation somewhere?
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Disruptive (loud or bursty) office noise tends to be contagious, even among those who it bothers. Asking people to be quieter is hard.
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@sgalineau It's the Web standardization forum most accepting of bad behavior, so tends to fill up with it.
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@pcwalton Probably making the same mistakes Gecko (etc.?) made regarding line breaking interaction with vertical alignment.
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@SimonSapin mozilla.dev.tech.layout, or #layout on Mozilla IRC?
I rewrote the article on adding a new CSS property to Gecko's style system: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…
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@LeaVerou I was taught (as a kid) that the rule was that the person who placed the call originally should call back.
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@DigDug2K @BrendanEich Yes, though I think that's a different thing from what @_JamesMGreene was raising, other than having the same name.
@_JamesMGreene @BrendanEich So no plans (and skeptical), but discuss on www-style use cases and/or a description of what 'zoom' does?
@_JamesMGreene That spec is for properties that apply to @viewport, not to elements. So spec URL unrelated to your request.
@BrendanEich @_JamesMGreene Not sure if that spec is related to what's implemented or if either is something we want. Use cases?
Fareed Zakaria on causes of low economic mobility (people who start poor rarely get rich) in the USA: wapo.st/15G8BqA
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Income inequality within a country versus income inequality globally. With meaningful data. washingtonpost.com/blogs/won…
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Interesting history of rapid sea level rises in the past, and maybe the future: nyti.ms/165hBJA
DOJ complaint against American-US Airways merger focuses on general industry issues, national airport (DCA), and no other airports (PHL?).
Why isn't nih.gov/news/health/aug2013/… getting major news coverage? Is it not as good as it sounds, or media just ignoring it?
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