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David Baron (computer scientist)

David Baron (computer scientist)

American computer scientist

David Baron is an American computer scientist, web browser engineer, open web standards author, technology speaker,[3][4] and open source contributor. He has written and edits several CSS web standards specifications including CSS Color Module Level 3,[5] CSS Conditional Rules,[6] and several working drafts. He started working on Mozilla in 1998,[4] and was employed by Mozilla in 2003 to help develop and evolve the Gecko rendering engine, eventually as a Distinguished Engineer[7] in 2013.[8] He was Mozilla’s representative on the WHATWG Steering Group from 2017-2020.[9][10] He has served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) continuously since being elected in 2015[11] and re-elected subsequently, most recently in 2020.[12][13] In 2021 he joined Google to work on Google Chrome.[14]

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Notable inventions

  • Reftests — automated visual tests of browser engine rendering[15]
  • CSS animations implementation in Gecko[16]

Writing

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

  • CSS Color Module Level 3 Recommendation[5]
  • CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3 Candidate Recommendation[6]
  • CSS Animations Level 1 Working Draft[17]
  • CSS Overflow Module Level 3 Working Draft[18]
  • CSS Transitions Working Draft[19]

Baron was also a technical reviewer of the book "Transitions and Animations in CSS: Adding Motion with CSS".[20]

References

  1. [1]
    "Dbaron - Overview". GitHub.
  2. [2]
    https://dbaron.org/
  3. [3]
    "SXSW 2009: Full Event List". sxsw2009.sched.com.
  4. [4]
    "Fast CSS: How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages".
  5. [5]
    "CSS Color Module Level 3". www.w3.org. June 19, 2018.
  6. [6]
    Baron, L. David (April 4, 2013). "CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3". www.w3.org.
  7. [7]
    "Chrome deploys deep-linking tech in latest browser build despite privacy concerns". www.theregister.com.
  8. [8]
    "Mozilla Distinguished Engineer: David Baron". 2013-03-11. Archived from the original on 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  9. [9]
    "The WHATWG Blog — Further working mode changes".
  10. [10]
    "Update SG representative for Mozilla. by dbaron · Pull Request #142 · whatwg/sg". GitHub.
  11. [11]
    "Statements about TAG nominees for 2015 Election". www.w3.org.
  12. [12]
    "W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group | W3C News". 13 January 2020.
  13. [13]
    "TAG members over time". tag.w3.org. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  14. [14]
    "L. David Baron". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  15. [15]
    "README.txt - mozsearch". searchfox.org.
  16. [16]
    "Firefox 5 beta arrives for desktop and Android". arstechnica.com. 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  17. [17]
    "CSS Animations Level 1". www.w3.org.
  18. [18]
    "CSS Overflow Module Level 3". www.w3.org.
  19. [19]
    "CSS Transitions". www.w3.org.
  20. [20]
    Weyl, Estelle (April 14, 2016). Transitions and Animations in CSS: Adding Motion with CSS. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 9781491929834 – via Google Books.
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