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Accessibility is a key reason for this proposal. Today, canvas accessibility is quite limited. This proposal enables the browser to know how accessible dom elements map to canvas p…

This proposal is a lot like an easier way to draw foreign object into canvas. This proposal supports new features too, such as updating the canvas when the content changes, and int…

Gecko is base-60 a.k.a. sexagesimal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal ) which is highly divisible. In Firefox, a pixel is sort of a CSS minute :) Blink and WebKit are les…

Lego continues to be a favorite in our house. Duplo for 2-4, and Lego for 3+.

I have saved a little script to use with git bisect and a stashed test: https://gist.github.com/progers/998452a15180ae369fee338bb393...

Double requestAnimationFrame will still work and is the technique used by the WPT repository (a test suite shared by all major browsers): https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chrom…

There's a great children's history book titled "This Bridge Will Not Be Gray" by Dave Eggers that goes into the early days of the color choice. The bridge was shipped over from eas…

This article is just about acceleration and stacking is not introduced. WebKit's architecture ties together the concepts of stacking and acceleration. A positive effect is that it …

Thanks for the recommendation. If this comment piqued anyone else's interest, as it did mine, there is an updated version of Bloomfield's Let’s Read: https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Re…

SVG filter support in Chromium is actively being worked on, primarily led by an incredible engineer at Opera (fs@opera.com). This work has been ongoing for almost a year and should…

Thanks for the link. This CDC guidance is basically the tl;dr of the actionable parts of the medium article. The CDC guidance is: * Maintain good social distance (about 6 feet). Th…

See A Satellite Tonight ( https://james.darpinian.com/satellites ) is a nice tool for finding these. I have a young kid and it's been fun heading out at night and spotting these.

"Almost 2 percent of the kids diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States have died from it, and the majority of them wind up in an ICU in a hospital." Is this a typo? Possibly he…

If https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Category.as... is accurate, the bay area was the top recipient of H1B recipients in 2019.

This is for all years, but the numbers for 2019 seem to indicate SV will be affected: https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp... Google is #8. Amazon, Facebook…

I don't think this is true for the chromium project. Bugs filed at https://crbug.com are quickly triaged.

You might enjoy this article about a professor who became one: https://stevesalaita.com/an-honest-living . The job seems more complex and more rewarding than I had imagined.

An important aspect of the big index funds is that they are weighted by market cap. If my lemonade stand IPOs, the market will not value it highly and very little index fund money …

This was recently implemented in Chromium-based browsers (M76) too. https://web.dev/backdrop-filter has some more information about the CSS, and https://www.chromestatus.com/featur…

What is plan 3315?

SVG's SMIL bites again (the bug used to write the exploit). This ancient animation system is incredibly hard to implement without security bugs due how GC interacts with the SVG SM…

Duplo are blocks twice the size of Lego. There are also Quatro blocks which are twice the size of Duplo. These have been discontinued: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/QUATRO

I don't think this is practical because many men do not take their full paternity leave. For biological reasons alone, the woman needs to take more.

Are design parameters such as pile depth part of the public record? Is there a way to lookup the design of a building?