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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But balance that with a good API being one where things that look fast are fast, and things that are slow look slow.
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don't think I would've said that about WebFonts; concern was security / matching tradeoff, now fixed by sanitizers
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I believe that was actually so stylesheets can provide a "font library" and then only download the fonts that are used
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Would be good to post, since I might try to make some Houdini work be an intern project this summer (starting in 6 days!)
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Have regressions in GMail plain text output bugging other text-based email users lately? Lines quoted with > that shouldn't be.
How much of this is result of US housing policy & resulting high CO₂ emissions for transport and heating/cooling?
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Google Keep is useful, but not clear why keep.google.com/ needs to peg 50% of a CPU when in foreground tab in Firefox or Chrome
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OK, that actually works after updating from Vidyo 3.5 to 3.6, but 3.5 didn't actually offer the headset as an option
underlines on @NewYorker with Javascript disabled (gradient background hack depends on font that only loads with JS)
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@veosotano No, can't search for either. Adding #rgba and #rrggbbaa was risky, but large mindshare reduces the risk.
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@veosotano CSS needs to be read by many developers all over the world. Any syntax that can't be put in a search engine is dangerous.
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@veosotano 1. Don't think so. 2. No -- it's probably too confusing to read. Just use #rrggbbaa (double the r, g, and b digits).
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@vmbrasseur @BrendanEich @googlecalendar How about "always view [date range] as [timezone]"? Or even infer it from travel events?
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Today's @FirefoxNightly supports #rgba and #rrggbbaa color values in CSS. Hopefully shipping in Firefox 49.
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@roessler How uniformly will candidates accept donations from green card holders?
@mleibovic That vision is missing the part where you can reach the Web with a device or OS of your choice, which allows competition.
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@SimonSapin But to get that I guess I can just filter on the body