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dbaron

@dbaron@w3c.social

Engineer on Google Chrome. Involved in CSS, W3C, and WHATWG standards. Previously Mozilla (2003-2020), W3C TAG (2015-2021).

🌎 Rockville, Maryland, United States

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divya, to random
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How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts

"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."

https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-residents-say-california-forever-petitioners-spread-misinformation-about-voting-process/

dbaron,
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@divya I thought this was how all the California propositions that was put on the ballot by petition got there...

skinnylatte, to random
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Things I like about the Bay Area:

BART from airport

dbaron,
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@skinnylatte A few years ago I did have a Twitter thread with one particular confused international visitor plus a member of the BART board. Don't know if it helped (though that particular problem was the airport's responsibility)...

Perhaps not as bad as the international visitor who I saw put a $20 into the bus fare box, expecting change...

stshank, (edited ) to random
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Grammar time!

dbaron,
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@stshank Whoever thinks there's one answer should learn from whomever disagrees.

jpzwarte, to random
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@bramus So anchor positioning is in Chrome 125 beta, but not in dev? Una's http://anchor-tool.com/ doesn't work in 125.0.6420.4 (dev build).

Devtools sees things like inset-area as valid, but the element isn't positioned correctly.

dbaron,
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@jpzwarte @bramus It should be enabled in both dev (as of 125.0.6420.4) and beta (as of 125.0.6422.4) but right now it looks like the current beta build is newer than the current dev build (both the same versions as the above) and thus the beta build might have some additional bug fixes that aren't yet shipping in dev.

(Sources: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Mac and https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/commit/511bcdbb51668ab55b98e11f9a7059cdb71f61fe .)

mhoye, to random
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Since I see that a notable VC-famous is now telling us that he wish he'd "stood by" Eich way back, I'd like to tell you a true fact that situation: Eich didn't lose the CEO's job for his (reprehensible) Prop-8 donation.

Everyone wants to believe that's true, because fits nicely into narratives a number of invested camps want to believe, whether it's somebody being ousted for reprehensible views the woke SJW mob somehow pulling down a great leader (tm) but that's not what happened.

dbaron,
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@fabrice @mhoye I think it sounds like the email in question is https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.governance/c/dba6C45D9vs/m/eFee27PpFgAJ

mike, (edited ) to random
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I've said it a thousand times, corporate stock buy backs should be illegal. Just watched an interview with Sully Sullenburger re the situation at Boeing.
"They spent a lot of money on stock buybacks instead of re-investing in safety and engineering"

Stock buybacks were at one time illegal because it creates an artificial market environment. It's insider trading on steroids. Governments everywhere need to stop abdicating their regulatory responsibilies. It's literally killing people.

dbaron,
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@mike Under US tax law income to the shareholders that comes from buybacks is taxed more favorably than income from dividends (at capital gains rate which is lower, and with ability to cancel out capital losses).

chriscoyier, to random
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Chrome!!

This is killing me. So many users frustrated. Our <iframe> permissions just don't seem to work anymore, even though they are set like they always have been.

Example in image.

dbaron,
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@chriscoyier Might it have something to do with the src pointing to codepen.io but the current document having a cdpn.io domain? See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Permissions-Policy#iframes

dbaron,
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@chriscoyier You can allow both domains within the syntax of the "allow" attribute -- it's just not the default for putting the keywords in there, so it would be more verbose.

divya, to random
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    dbaron,
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    @divya I though the problem for birds was mainly windows (though some types of windows more than others, see for example https://www.fws.gov/story/threats-birds-collisions-buildings-glass ). Yes, skyscrapers have a lot of windows, but so do any other buildings that people live in. And usage/lighting patterns in skyscrapers could be improved independent of whether they're skyscrapers.

    luis_in_brief, to random
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    Allright nerds: your challenge, today: when, exactly, does a copyright expiration go into effect? Curveball: Puerto Rico is an hour ahead of DC. Relevance: this is not entirely hypothetical and I guarantee anyone nerdy enough to figure this out on a Saturday will be tickled when I DM you why.

    (I have looked at CRS but not yet dived into caselaw.)

    CC @marklemley @richardfontana @pchestek https://social.coop/

    dbaron,
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    @luis_in_brief @marklemley @richardfontana @pchestek Is this specifically about Puerto Rico, or are any timezones in US law relevant? (As you know, IANAL, but I am a timezone nerd.) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamorro_Time_Zone and 15 USC §261 and §263.

    whitequark, to random
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    observation: Mozilla's decision to ship WebMIDI with SysEx support (https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/15O04X2jE28/m/deXYDi85CQAJ) and refusal to ship WebSerial (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336) are fundamentally inconsistent with each other. they're the ~same API. either they're both fully unsafe, or they're both manageable

    dbaron,
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    @whitequark It's been a few years since I was involved, but the general practice in the standards-positions repo is that substantive discussions of the position belong in the issue; the PRs are much more transient and a place to discuss wording. So comments in the PR (rather than the issue) may get lost (and to some extent are expected to).

    zachleat, to random
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    happy try-not-to-lose-your-shit-as-you-endure-terrible-instruction-manuals-and-extremely-poor-toy-design day, for those that celebrate

    it’s going wonderful over here 😅😅😅

    (merry christmas, y’all 🎄)

    dbaron,
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    @zachleat 3.5V batteries, I hope...

    aardrian, to accessibility
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    I confirmed Chrome’s implementation of native accordions using only the name attribute:
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1444057#c16

    Eg:

    &lt;details name="Ugh"&gt;  
 &lt;summary&gt;Yup&lt;/summary&gt;  
&lt;/details&gt;  
&lt;details name="Ugh"&gt;  
 &lt;summary&gt;Nope&lt;/summary&gt;  
&lt;/details&gt;

    I made a demo:
    https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/gOqdaXQ

    Chrome’s inspector shows no information conveying one disclosure is related to another. JAWS and NVDA confirm it (but how could SRs know).

    Do a Ctrl+F for “progress” in Chrome Canary.

    dbaron,
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    @aardrian I was working on fixing this just yesterday and today (after a detour into changing posinset/setsize behavior for radio buttons that we decided not to pursue for the reasons described in https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1465626#c15 ).

    (Current work-in-progress at https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/5062340 .)

    skinnylatte, to random
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    I don’t understand how healthcare works in this country, but I wanted a Novavax vaccine and Costco has it. Confusingly, Costco also tells you it’s a hundred dollars as you book it, but when you get there it’s 0 dollars (with insurance). Probably also still free for those without insurance. It feels very American to go get a vaccine at Costco. On cyber Monday. I don’t believe you need to be a member to use their pharmacy.

    https://www.costco.com/adult-immunization-program.html

    dbaron,
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    @danilo @skinnylatte When I lived in Palo Alto near University Ave, I had good experiences with the Walgreens there until it closed around June 2020, mainly in the 3-6 months before it closed. The pharmacy staff were very helpful, and switching the same prescriptions to the CVS down the street was a pain.

    dbaron, to random
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    The New York Times has an article on the state of indoor air quality (and disease transmission, and health): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/health/indoor-air-covid-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE0.KwRE.BEZNPsOi_0xM&smid=url-share

    twipped, to random
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    Can anyone recommend a 55” QLED tv that isn’t weighed down with shit software?

    I almost bought a FireTV this week, and then I saw Amazon is increasing the amount of advertising they put on it.

    I don’t want a smart tv, I just want good picture.

    dbaron,
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    @hober @twipped I had a colleague suggest that what you want is now called a "commercial display".

    dbaron, to random
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    Since I have different opinions on daylight saving time (DST), a.k.a. summer time, than others:

    Lawful Good: DST, roughly 25°-48° from equator, switching 3 weeks winter-ward of equinoxes

    Neutral Good: DST as done today

    Chaotic Good: Local sunrise is 6am

    Lawful Neutral: Permanent standard time

    True neutral: Mean local solar noon

    Chaotic Neutral: Standard time of nearest multiple-of-15° longitude

    Lawful Evil: UTC everywhere

    Neutral Evil: Permanent DST

    Chaotic Evil: Seconds since the epoch

    dbaron,
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    @Taco_lad I think it's a bad idea to have a system where a single place uses different UTC offsets depending on the language spoken. And ignoring that, making it so people start work at 11am in some parts of the country because the timezone is weird sort of defeats the point of having local time in the first place. If you have to ask "what time do folks start work in [City]" then it's just extra data in addition to the time zone.

    dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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    I had a discussion at dinner tonight that made me curious.

    US voters:

    Have you voted for a Republican...

    dbaron,
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    @dancinyogi Last time I voted for a Republican was November 2014, on the basis of strong endorsements from both the LA Times and SF Chronicle (both of which very rarely endorse Republicans):
    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/endorsements/la-ed-end-secretary-of-state-20140916-story.html
    https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Pete-Peterson-for-secretary-5781300.php

    (I also lived most of my voting age life in California, where there are a lot of partisan offices on the ballot relative to many other states.)

    bkardell, to random
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    https://bkardell.com/blog/cosimo.html

    About a very interesting experience i had in Florence..

    dbaron,
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    @bkardell For what it's worth, if you're interested in a free service to help you make a family tree (since your post mentioned the cost of sites to do that), I'd recommend https://www.familysearch.org/ .

    Worth noting that tree entries for deceased relatives are public, and shared with all other users. So if you build enough family tree you should reach parts of the tree that other users built. (Entries for anyone living are private.)

    adactio, (edited ) to random
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    Resetting the counter to zero on the sign that reads, “Days since wanting to use custom properties inside media queries.”

    🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/20497

    dbaron,
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    @adactio Would it make sense to have custom globals that work like custom properties but aren't specific to any element? I think something like that would allow this sort of thing (maybe with the caveat that a style sheet whose use was conditional on a global couldn't modify that global).

    Then an interesting question is whether these would be in the same namespace as custom properties (used from var()) or a different one.

    dbaron,
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    @kizu @adactio @mia

    I also don't immediately see a reason that font-relative units and custom properties shouldn't work in container queries. (But that doesn't mean there isn't one.)

    The resolution in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8088 says custom properties should work in container queries -- at least for size queries. (And I don't see why they won't work in style queries too.)

    As for media queries -- I don't think the original use case requires const-ness, but it does require being global.

    dbaron,
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    @mia @kizu @adactio I'd also note that I think at least Gecko and Chromium have systems for auto filling CSSWG resolutions into GitHub issues in a special repo for this purpose, and then a system where adding labels to those issues causes browser bugs to be auto filed. So there could already be bugs...

    stshank, to random
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    Wow, not only did American Airlines wipe out my miles after 2 years of not flying with them, they wiped out my entire account! Frequent flyer programs are supposed to encourage loyalty, but they often have the opposite effect for me.

    dbaron,
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    @stshank Yeah, I've been keeping my AA account alive by "donating" 1000 miles to charity every 2 years.

    (I did completely lose an old US Airways account, though shortly after a redemption, so really what I lost was 53K miles progress toward million miler status, which I'm unlikely to ever care about on American Airlines.)

    aardrian, to accessibility
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    Chromium (Google) is running at “exclusive accordions” without it being hashed out within WHATWG or with AT users.

    I am trying to remind them to consider screen reader users in particular both at the informal poll (https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/812#issuecomment-1692360733) and in the bug tracker (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1444057#c11).

    dbaron,
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    @aardrian @stubbornella That's the way WHATWG specs work -- basically everything happens in PRs that are sometimes open for years.

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