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
Lula's win not only preserves democracy in Brazil, it is also an *enormous* win for climate. What happens to Brazil's rainforest has carbon consequences that dwarf most of what passes for climate policy in the west. reuters.com/world/americas/l…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There r crazies across the political spectrum who can become violent. But we have to be honest & recognize that these incidents are overwhelmingly on the right because incitement to violence is pervasive in GOP messaging and tolerated and embraced by GOP officeholders and media.
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I have lived in four states, and the one whose liquor laws I consider most normal is California. It turns out California makes a lot of wine.
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Reminds me of
I saw an interesting public transit pricing structure while on vacation in the Loire Valley.
It's described (in French) in remi-centrevaldeloire.fr/tar…
Basically, the train/bus system for the region of Centre-Val de Loire offers a pass priced to compete with rental cars.
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Not surprising.
The closest thing I've seen to that is the international departures schedule at Shin-Chitose (on a fixed poster, not dynamic!). Plus the set of languages on the signs in the airport...
(Photos from 2015-10-31.)
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It seems unlikely to be an accident that they're measuring the length of Japan using an island (Etorofu/Iturup) that has been controlled by the Soviet Union and Russia since 1945 but is still claimed by Japan.
For those who find it difficult to imagine the entire length of the front line of the rus-Ukraine war, this is:
distance from Barcelona to Warsaw;
almost the entire length of the US border with Mexico;
distance from Etorofu to Nagasaki in Japan;
distance from moscow to The Hague.
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I suspect that (like many fingerprinting aspects of text rendering) is already exposed through 2D canvas.
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One of my local Indian restaurants offers 2, depending on how they've inferred your ethnicity over the phone. Either mild/medium or medium/spicy. It's the only Indian restaurant I know where my preference is mild. (My default is medium in US or Australia, spicy in UK/NZ.)
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One thing that breaks with some of the toggles.oddbird.net demos is the issue described in github.com/tabatkins/css-tog…
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Right now this is experimental; don't want to ship if it's bad for accessibility.
I don't think that means every use of toggle must have perfect accessibility (I don't think that's possible), but it should lead to the web being more accessible than it is today.
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Figuring out if we can have default ARIA roles inferred from toggle usage patterns is the next thing I'm looking to implement in the toggles prototype. There's a bunch of notes in github.com/tabatkins/css-tog… though I'm not sure how comprehensible they'll be.
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I think there's generally been a trend towards performing actions on mousedown because it feels faster.
A tradeoff here is whether you want the action to happen on mousedown or mouseup. (Really mousedown versus click, but click happens when mouseup happens.)
mousedown happens sooner so feels more responsive/performant to users. click doesn't fire when mouse moves (far enough).
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There's also popupshowtarget and popuphidetarget.
toggleid is really too short, doesn't have any sign it's about popup.
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Does that include the flying in a small plane going up (more dangerous than commercial), or just the skydiving going down?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Driving is so routinized that people have no idea how dangerous it actually is, so I did a little math to provide some much-needed perspective.
If air travel had the same fatality rate as driving, approximately 47 commercial flights would've crashed in 2019 with no survivors.
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