Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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... what actual changes were being made for us to evaluate them.
I guess given that there's an implementation to play with in canary there's at least one concrete answer to questions about behavior.
We should probably go back and figure out the list of questions we had. [2/2]
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For what it's worth, when the TAG looked at Portals, I think our reaction was that (a) it clearly makes some pretty major changes to how origins (and UI and permissions based on them) work on the Web and (b) the explainer and spec we saw weren't clear enough on what... [1/N]
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Also I think we have to start viewing these decisions as metro area decisions and not per-city decisions (with silly historical city boundaries that make no sense for today's world).
But at some point we have to get to a metro area layout that's not an environmental disaster. Some of the path from here to there is going to involve things that make long-term sense but not short-term sense.
Prop 13 repeal is a step along that path, but need not be step 1.
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I don't think per-jurisdiction jobs/housing balance is a good metric. If you want more transit commuting and less driving you don't want the jobs spread thinly over the whole metro; you want jobs to be in central places. (Am I channeling @alon_levy here?)
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Video of the study session: youtube.com/watch?v=RiW5JfrY…
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Yeah, this was an interesting meeting... although it didn't do very well at its intended purpose (study session, learn about what's happening at the state level). A few of us pro-housing folks did also speak during public comment.
Video should be online within a few hours...
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In particular, I'd expect a bunch of cases using that part of the law may be more valuable than using the jobs-rich/bus rules.
Also, the neighboorhood multifamily project rules ("duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes") also limit parking minimums to 0.5 parking spaces per unit.
After looking at this & reading the amendments, I'm thinking that the "Everywhere else" on "duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes" is misleading, since that section of the law also has ministerial approval, and may thus be used even where other parts could be.
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We went with the other approach:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
which we're working to get out in a dot release as well, for those users/products that don't get the update from Normandy.
fwiw, we may or may not ship that approach. There are two approaches being worked on in parallel.
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I believe the addons will disable themselves even if you disconnect from the network.
Most likely workaround is bumping the app.update.lastUpdateTime.xpi-signature-verification preference to a timestamp in the *recent* (minutes) past while Firefox is *not* running. Untested.
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It's not tied to startup; there's a record of when this was last checked, and it gets rechecked if it wasn't within the last 24 hours. So that's likely to happen at startup (with probability related to how long Firefox wasn't open), but will happen while running as well.
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A photo of an urban environment I like [14/N]:
Yongkang Street, Da’an District, Taipei City, Taiwan
台灣台北市大安區永康街
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... though (assuming you're looking at the Yìngchéng photo and not the others in the thread) it's in a more peripheral city, not the central city in its metro area (Wuhan is 90 minutes away by car or train, questionably same metro area).
Also, many more photos in the thread...
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
rue du Pas de la Mule & rue des Tournelles, 75004 Paris, France
October 2013
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You remind me that I should continue my series that does the opposite: photos I've taken of places abroad that I think are good urban environments. Currently up to nitter.vloup.ch/davidbaron/statu… ...
A photo of an urban environment I like:
中国湖北省孝感市应城市城中街道粮贸街南路
Liáng mào jiē South Road, Chengzhong Subdistrict, Yingcheng City, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, China
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