Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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Many of the Gecko string types should really just be extra constructors for what is currently their base class.
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Six months notice seems like too little for the timezone database to be patched, all operating systems to ship that update, everybody to get that update, and then complete all the recurring meetings or cross-country video meetings scheduled prior to the update.
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Maybe things are better now, but I'm not optimistic, especially when multiple calendar programs are involved.
Think about recurring events. That "every Monday at 10am" meeting that you've already created could be "every Monday at 10am by the old timezone rules".
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European friends, prepare for the pain of time zone rule changes announced with too little notice. See the proposed directive at the end of ec.europa.eu/commission/prio…
When the US did this in 2007, most calendar software bound timezone rules to events when the events were created.
🕒 We are proposing to end seasonal clock changes in Europe in 2019.
The last mandatory change to summertime would take place on Sunday 31 March 2019.
#SOTEU #ClockChange #EfficientEU
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We used to have bugs full of these spelling fix suggestions for the times you needed a no-op commit in order to retrigger builds.
Now we just have build infrastructure with self-service retriggers...
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and worth raising an issue at github.com/w3c/tr-design , where the style sheets are maintained
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In case you weren't paying attention to tropical cyclones right now: the strongest tropical cyclone *right now* isn't Florence; it has 170mph winds and is going to hit the northern Philippines (probably Cagayan Valley region) in less than 24 hours. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_P…
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A specific case of #5 in kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/fal… ?
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It makes a table-column-group box. See, say, drafts.csswg.org/css2/tables… .
(But what's a box if you can't see it?)
On the other hand, its backgrounds do show up somewhat indirectly through drafts.csswg.org/css2/tables… , and its borders show up indirectly when border-collapse: collapse.
Helene appears to be only the fifth Tropical Storm to form in the Atlantic east of 19°W.
(This is based on the discussion from Fred in 2015 at nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2015/al… and a quick skim of the Hurricane season maps from 2015-2018.)
Tropical Storm #Helene Advisory 3: Now available on the NHC website. go.usa.gov/W3H
Ugh. Another day when I have the time to run, but choose not to due to the air quality (image from purpleair.com/map?&zoom=10&l…)
I had some other concerns with the details of the split-roll initiative in this thread:
Fundamentally, though, the biggest fault of Prop 13 is with its taxation of residential property. It encourages empty-nesters to stay in homes that are too big, and more generally prevents the younger generation from getting reasonable housing in much of California.
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Or the result could be something like politico.com/story/2008/08/r…
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