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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The flight boarded a little late, but nothing out of the ordinary. Still plenty of time to connect in FRA back to SFO.
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So a little more detail: today was almost my first flight on an A320neo. That's relevant. In this case, D-AINF flying LH1059, NCE-FRA.
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Rebooking passengers from a cancelled flight could be mostly automated, but airlines (@lufthansa anyway) do it very badly.
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5000 units per year isn't aggressive; it's a slow pace of construction that has (and will) let prices keep rising.
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It's clear the @w3ctag doesn't have consensus on the correct pronunciation of "GIF". At least we moved back to the real topic after 20 sec.
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The heuristic just becomes part of the API that developers need to understand in order to work around. 6/7
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If you design a heuristic that can be defeated, what you've done is build a complicated and hard-to-understand API. 5/7
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If you design something based on a heuristic, you have to consider how developers will behave once they know the heuristic. 4/7
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But when browsers have enough market share, sites react to how they behave. So browser makers need to think about how they will react. 3/7
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One role of web browsers is to act on behalf of their users. They can protect users from things websites want but that users don't. 1/7
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The web was stuck with EME once W3C made it part of a working group's charter. The real opportunity passed years ago.
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... and a bunch of the decision making process involves listening to Moz folks who are. Further, we can agree with EFF's goals... 2/
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Twitter probably isn't the best forum for this right now -- but engineers aren't (in general) the experts on law and policy... 1/
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