David Baron (computer scientist)

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David Baron
David Baron in 2017
Nationality	American
Other names	L. David Baron^[1]
Alma mater	Harvard University^[2]
Occupation	web browser engines
Organization	Google
Known for	CSS, Gecko rendering engine
Website	https://dbaron.org/

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]

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

^ "Dbaron - Overview". GitHub.
^ https://dbaron.org/ ^{[bare URL]}
^ "SXSW 2009: Full Event List". sxsw2009.sched.com.
^ ^a ^b "Fast CSS: How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages".
^ ^a ^b "CSS Color Module Level 3". www.w3.org. June 19, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Baron, L. David (April 4, 2013). "CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3". www.w3.org.
^ "Chrome deploys deep-linking tech in latest browser build despite privacy concerns". www.theregister.com.
^ "Mozilla Distinguished Engineer: David Baron". 2013-03-11. Archived from the original on 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^ "The WHATWG Blog — Further working mode changes".
^ "Update SG representative for Mozilla. by dbaron · Pull Request #142 · whatwg/sg". GitHub.
^ "Statements about TAG nominees for 2015 Election". www.w3.org.
^ "W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group | W3C News". 13 January 2020.
^ "TAG members over time". tag.w3.org. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
^ "L. David Baron". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
^ "README.txt - mozsearch". searchfox.org.
^ "Firefox 5 beta arrives for desktop and Android". arstechnica.com. 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^ "CSS Animations Level 1". www.w3.org.
^ "CSS Overflow Module Level 3". www.w3.org.
^ "CSS Transitions". www.w3.org.
^ 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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