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David Baron
Occupationweb browser engines
Websitehttps://dbaron.org/

David Baron is an American computer scientist, web browser engineer, open web standards author, technology speaker[1][2], and open source contributor. He has written and edits several CSS web standards specifications including CSS Color Module Level 3[3], CSS Conditional Rules[4], and several working drafts. He started working on Mozilla in 1998[5], and was employed by Mozilla in 2003 to help develop and evolve the Gecko rendering engine, eventually as a Distinguished Engineer.[6]. He was Mozilla’s representative on the WHATWG Steering Group from 2017-2020.[7][8]. He has served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) continuously since being elected in 2015[9] and re-elected subsequently, most recently in 2020.[10]

Notable Inventions

  • Reftests — automated visual tests of browser engine rendering[11]

Writing

Baron is the author and editor of several W3C web standards:

  • CSS Color Module Level 3 Recommendation[12]
  • CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3 Candidate Recommendation[13]
  • CSS Animations Level 1 Working Draft[14]
  • CSS Overflow Module Level 3 Working Draft[15]
  • CSS Transitions Working Draft[16]

References

  1. ^ https://sxsw2009.sched.com/list/descriptions/venue/Austin%20Convention%20Ctr/Room%2016AB
  2. ^ https://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP12909
  3. ^ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-3/
  4. ^ https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-conditional/
  5. ^ https://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP12909
  6. ^ https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/20/chrome_deploys_deeplinking/
  7. ^ https://blog.whatwg.org/working-mode-changes
  8. ^ https://github.com/whatwg/sg/pull/142
  9. ^ https://www.w3.org/2015/12/01-tag-nominations#db
  10. ^ https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8231
  11. ^ https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/tools/reftest/README.txt
  12. ^ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-3/
  13. ^ https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-conditional/
  14. ^ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-animations-1/
  15. ^ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-3/
  16. ^ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-transitions-1/

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