Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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I *think* that in Chrome, the URL bar is rendered with native UI, not with Chromium. This is different from Firefox, where the UI is written using Gecko so the URL bar is rendered using Gecko.
Then there's the question of why it doesn't work with Chromium's text shaping stack.
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I took the liberty of adding that to the agenda at github.com/w3ctag/meetings/t…
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But bounding the error to at most 10% makes them more clearly meaningful.
That said, my "industry moving to China" was poorly phrased shorthand for "increasing consumption of goods pollutingly produced elsewhere" (i.e., possibly new consumption rather than movement). 2/2
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Thanks. The consumer goods as portion of household footprint numbers are pretty convincing.
I'm asking because the numbers that are widely quoted (emissions in a region) aren't really the numbers that are answering the right question (emissions from people's consumption). 1/
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I'd like to see GHG emission stats that attribute industrial production to the place goods are consumed rather than the place they're produced. Would such numbers still show California hitting targets? Or are we hitting the targets because industry is moving to China, etc.?
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After the Sierra Club's track record in San Francisco (see, for example, forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/… ), I don't trust them as an environmental organization, since they allow their local chapters to prominently oppose things that would help the environment.
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Are the benefits of agglomeration tied to dense (rather than sprawly) development that tends to happen in more NIMBY areas?
XMLHttpRequest was introduced to Gecko in github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev… by Vidur Apparao... but I'm not sure whether the casing of the name came from its Microsoft ActiveX predecessor.
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Attributing emissions to the country of production rather than the country of consumption makes many of those statistics rather suspect, though.
I'd reframe it this way... although perhaps it's also worth mentioning laws and regulations that apply at a smaller scale, e.g., affecting land use.
Blaming it on companies feels like it absolves us of the responsibility to change the laws and regulations that govern those companies, which is the only way we can get meaningful change.
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Blaming it on companies feels like it absolves us of the responsibility to change the laws and regulations that govern those companies, which is the only way we can get meaningful change.
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Yet another way that US bills and coins are among the worst: all the people on them are there because they were politicians.
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@MozSheriffMemes Trees in orange, red, and green: flickr.com/photos/dbaron/303…
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That said, I think summer time changes *do* make sense, particularly if you live between about 15 and 50 degrees from the equator. I think it's a decent approximation for (otherwise mathematically harder, but nicer) sunrise-relative time, rather than noon-relative time.
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Moving Europe to the Chinese-style (at least for Mandarin speakers) single timezone?
If so, maybe it would make more sense to use UTC+1 rather than UTC+2, given that so much of CET (Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) really belongs in UTC rather than UTC+1?
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Walking around Sydney, there's clearly a lot of high rise construction. It might be doing its part to keep prices down, though I don't know what the actual numbers are...
Filed github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/… as an issue against the spec.
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On the flip side, maybe the software ecosystems that companies create *are* their responsibility. I think some people have moved to seeing things that way, and as a result are more careful about extensibility and the platforms they're building.
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