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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@mike_conley Even better, in SF, we start getting later sunsets in just over a week: timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-…
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@rachelnabors The source file is drafts.css-houdini.org/css-s… . Empty. But step 1 is to have an empty file to type in.
@anatudor So is Gecko the only engine that does what the spec says?
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Big news for Argentina. Hope things change for the better.
Conservative Mauricio Macri confirmed winner in Argentina presidential elections, as ruling party opponent concedes bbc.in/1HgWCd7
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@svgeesus @GregWeng I thought the bug number upthread was for css-values attr() extensions, which is what I was calling speculative
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@GregWeng Draft specs have lots of very speculative stuff in them; in this case I think its one other browser engine, no?
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@GregWeng @heycam I was in the WG when we added that, and I think main use case was browser implementor internal use.
@GregWeng We have a 15 year old bug on supporting .doc in the browser. Does that mean we should do it? dbaron.org/log/20080515-age-…
Thought on @aerotwist FLIP technique: compute all the F, change style, compute all L: cause fewer relayouts. #chromedevsummit
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@that_mc @eean @mlroach @SFyimby en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United… with FL and OH (2 closest states Obama won) changed to R, 285-253
@rachelnabors The airline that operates the SFO-PDX flight might be considerate, perhaps?
@getify @AmericanAir Last I tried, Firefox nightly will refuse to connect, but that change hadn't made it to release channel quite yet.
@rachelandrew I feel most behind on email in the morning when home in California. Much better in Europe or East Asia.
@BrendanEich @sil Biggest takeaway seems to be desire for for better linebreaking algorithms. What else is important?
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@junglecode @fantasai @glazou Didn't @heycam initial implement with var- prefix and then have to change to --?
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I wonder if xkcd.com/1593/ was intended as an allegory about how technology experts see news about technology.
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@SimonSapin @tabatkins Don't think it applies to GIF, but that text was the result of a thread with dsinger.
@jonkoops @BrendanEich @elijahmanor Sorry about that; we were first implementor of calc(), and need to make time for more interop work now
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