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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Generally users expect the former (and most web page authors don't care about printing), whereas people who actually want to do print stuff on the web want the latter. We've mostly made decisions to match the user expectation, but as a result the developer facing API is ugly.
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... while others think we should make the meaning of CSS in printing what people who were writing CSS with print in mind would want (e.g., try to position each float entirely on one page if it fits, changing the layout as appropriate).
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There's a bunch we could do to fix printing in browsers. But there's also a tension when we do this. Some people see the goal of browser printing being to reflect the on-screen web page as accurately as possible (e.g., slice the float in half), ...
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I think there are different use cases for PDF on the Web:
* some people use it because they want to offer something as a saveable package (e.g., a bank statement) for archival
* some people care about the particular print layout
* maybe others
I think the first is likely bigger.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Big new endorsement for #SB50, #MoreHOMES Act: University of California Student Association, representing 275,000 UC students. Students in CA struggle w housing, as students & imagining a future where they can afford to make a life here. Let’s help them have that future. @_UCSA
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The problems of electoral districts can be mostly eliminated, while keeping their advantages, by using a mixed-member proportional system, like New Zealand or Germany.
That reminds me: it's worth looking up in cities' zoning codes what the minimum required parking is for a bar.
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Increased opportunity for corruption is also one of the reasons I'm likely to vote against split roll:
Commercial or industrial property that's zoned for residential use seems to get an exception. This would give an edge to properties nonconformant to (later) zoning. I also worry it creates an opportunity for corruption by pushing to change zoning to residential.
I'm a big fan of the "too much discretion is bad": for rule of law & predictability of government decisions, for reducing corruption, and for simplifying interaction with government.
See also: making tons of things crimes so prosecutors can always charge you with something.
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Photos from my trip to Tokyo (for the @w3ctag meeting) at the start of February: flickr.com/photos/dbaron/set…
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
Nezu 2-chōme, Tōkyō-to 113-0031, Japan (border of 10-ban/12-ban)
日本〒113-0031 東京都文京区根津根津２丁目 (10番/12番)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
State Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill to overrule low-density zoning near mass transit lines isn’t the political pariah it used to be. trib.al/DM2j0lj
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Constitution prohibits amendments depriving states of equal representation in the Senate, but I don't think there'd be any problem with an amendment that turned the Senate into a mostly ceremonial body like the British House of Lords.
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I think many of the changes Shill proposes would be doable, and would start leading to gradual shifts in preferences and policy.
I also think many people in the younger generation want to live in a less car-centric way, but they're prevented from doing so by zoning...
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More related, I calculated (using not quite comparable data, but still probably the right order of magnitude) that the chance of dying on a 737 MAX flight is the same as the chance of dying when driving 320 miles in the US. For that, we grounded the 737 MAX...
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Not just terrifying, also... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
(a bit unrelated, but also a bit related)
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