L. David Baron
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L. David Baron
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Engineer on Google Chrome. Involved in CSS, W3C, and WHATWG standards. Previously Mozilla (2003-2020), W3C TAG (2015-2021). Massachusetts, USA.
I know of 4 people in my class who have Wikipedia pages; only one of them is listed in the "Notable Alumni" section. (He's also the one pro athlete of the 4.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
So one of the stories I sometimes tell is of the name collisions in my 11th grade English class. One part (of many) was that the teacher took roll every class, alphabetically by last name, starting with "Liz, David, David, David". You made me realize that 3 of those 4 have wikipedia pages now.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It was an AC meeting, not the (earlier) Shenzhen TPAC.
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I guess I might have told you if you'd been at the April 2017 W3C AC meeting in Beijing with me. There was a street food stand making them in one of if the entrances to the subway station closest to the meeting venue, at the bottom of the stairs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
For what it's worth, I asked what I thought was a clear question in github.com/whatwg/dom/i... and I didn't see a clear answer to it (at least not from the main advocates in the issue). Without an answer I don't know how to make progress.
Proposal: a DocumentFragment whose nodes do not get removed once inserted · Issue #736 · whatwg/dom
edit I wouldn't mind Node.DOCUMENT_PERSISTENT_FRAGMENT_NODE name/kind neither TL;DR The document fragment is a great primitive to wrap together numerous nodes and append these directly as batch, ho...
github.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I would hope that they have and can effectively use data on the complete itineraries that any given cancellation disrupts, and how badly they're disrupted. Or is that too optimistic about their ability to optimize?
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I think some American English speakers are switching to putting the punctuation outside the quotation marks despite having been taught that inside was correct.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We've had some extensive discussions in a W3C CG around supporting tooltip-like features on touch recently, but they didn't end up going anywhere. Most significantly, I think:

github.com/openui/open-... (note github's "64 remaining items [Load more]" in the middle)

github.com/openui/open-...
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Probably also in part by Wiener entering the race for her seat even though she hadn't announced her plans yet.
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
eat squid, octopus, and cuttlefish
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM