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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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This president caused a crime wave and it should be front page news.
The 275 counties in which Trump held campaign rallies in 2016 had a 226% increase in hate crimes compared to similar counties in which Trump didn’t hold rallies. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The march of the seasons v.2. Temperature. Daily normal temperature (high+low÷2) for every day of the year. Temps are in °C. For reference, -10°C = 14°F; 0°C = 32°F; +10°C = 50°F; +20°C = 68°F; +30°C = 86°F.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The march of the seasons in Alaska. Daily normals for all 365 days. @AlaskaWx @IARC_Alaska
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The march of the seasons v.1. Precipitation. Daily normal precipitation for every day of the year. [Note: daily normal (or average) precipitation is not ideal when normal monthly precipitation is under 2". Median is better.]
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I tried for a few hours, but it was weird. Switched back to QWERTY on mobile despite using Dvorak on desktop.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
One year after Uber's fatal crash, the one thing that might have actually prevented Elaine Herzberg’s death still isn’t fixed. curbed.com/2019/3/22/1827317…
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Though, somewhat related, the working group has attempted to document property computed value dependencies at wiki.csswg.org/spec/property…
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I think the thing you're proposing would require that selector matching (which is expensive) happen in multiple passes, and then cascading (also somewhat expensive) happen again after each pass to resort the resulting results.
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Would be amusing to have more Finns respond directly to nitter.vloup.ch/NikkiHaley/statu… :-)
Alright @BernieSanders, you’re not the woman having the baby so I wouldn’t be out there talking about skimping on a woman when it comes to childbirth. Trust me! Nice try though.
I think the US reality is even worse: you can go straight to the database, but only if you're willing to give your data to a private company to interact with the government for you, rather than dealing with the government directly.
This is why I file my taxes on paper...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Boeing sold some safety features for its planes as expensive add-ons. Neither jet that crashed had them. @HirokoTabuchi & @dgelles with the report nyti.ms/2Tlknaz
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Growth of the world's population over the last 12,000 years with respect to present-day national territories.
Population estimates from the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) which was developed by @nlenvironagency.
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Towers can have good retail on the ground floor (see NYC), especially when the ground floor is allowed to be near the street rather than set back. I've heard retail problems in new buildings have something to do with how they're financed. I also suspect architectural review.
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e.g., normal in-flow content, in-flow content that has an ancestor whose height has already finished on a previous page, pieces of floats that began on a previous page, entire floats that couldn't even start on the previous page (don't get them out of order!), etc., etc.
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... where in a certain case you forgot to deal with moving a piece of content over to the next page and just left it on some list of things that needed to be handled. There are just lots of categories of stuff...
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The latter is hard because it requires a good understanding of the full range of what CSS can do. You need to know all the cases, because if you don't you'll end up with dangling pointer bugs, at least logically if not actually, because you end up with bugs of the sort...
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There are two+ disconnected parts to the printing code:
* interaction with printer drivers, the OS, and things like print settings and paper sizes
* how to break up HTML/CSS across pages
Bob Owen has done a bunch of good work lately on the former; I probably (!) own the latter
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There's also some interesting work on web packaging happening now. I think seeing it as an alternative for PDF and for "Save As... complete" is an important use case, though others are the focus right now, and the security properties of those other use cases are controversial.
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