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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Replying to @SimonSapin
Hard how? Poor interactions with editors?
I do recall suggesting that maybe column-span should be punted to level 2 of this spec. Now I regret not pushing harder on that.
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But it's css-multicol, so I just filed github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/… #1072 is worst, #1071 is also bad, & somebody should have noticed the rest.
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I don't expect to find multiple fundamental missing pieces just skimming the spec. First 3 implementors should have reported those.
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When a feature like developer.mozilla.org/en-US/… is implemented across multiple engines, I expect the spec for it to be in somewhat decent shape.
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Replying to @davidbaron @khuey_
@pcwalton but I suspect the detailed Paris metro map is probably tougher on rasterizers: ratp.fr/informer/picts/plans…
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Replying to @khuey_
No, just the Tokyo metro area:
Tokyo's rail network shows what a world class metro area's should look like: jreast.co.jp/e/routemaps/pdf… (English) pasmo.co.jp/area/transport/p… (日本語)
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... but I thought it was much saner to do a normalization pass after decoding, but still too risky for compat)
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... but it seemed to scary for compatibility. (Some i18n WG folks wanted comparison-time normalization, ...
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Hopefully making sure both strings are NFC will fix it? We came close to a Web-wide fix a few years ago...
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Unfortunately one of Unicode's requirements was "do everything legacy encodings can do" (no matter how awful)
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Graphics tracking US popular opinion over time, of ‘the Most Important Problem Facing This Country Today’ nyti.ms/2myhG6w
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Replying to @FremyCompany
Is there a technical advantage in JS, or just style? (In C++, the braces make local variables inside allowed.)
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Next step (for later) is dropping non-AEAD ciphersuites (i.e., CBC-mode), and thus un-supporting Safari 6 (iOS) and Safari 7-8 (iOS & Mac).
I haven't seen much commentary on what today's SHA1 news implies about HMACs using SHA1, but figured it was about time to disable it anyway.
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Dropped ciphersuites with SHA1 from dbaron.org/ which ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.… suggests (newly) breaks only IE11/Win Phone 8.1.
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This is a pretty nice match for the worst remaining drought in California in droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/…
Radar estimated rainfall accumulation graphic as of 7AM this morning. #CAwx #CAstorm #LArain #VCstorm #LAweather
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Thread: Could today's US government (and broken National Security Council) deal with a flu pandemic or Ebola crisis?
Replying to @JeremyKonyndyk
So as an emergency manager, welcome to my nightmare. Politics aside, I sincerely hope next Natl Security Advisor empowered to fix it. /end
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"in urban areas, brake wear in motor vehicles contributes up to 21 percent of all particulate emissions" citylab.com/commute/2017/02/…
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At least: - it's exposing a basic operation used elsewhere - white-space:nowrap might still leave extra space