This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill (documentation) and Citation bot (documentation). (August 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. (September 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
David Baron
David Baron in 2017
NationalityAmerican
Other namesL. David Baron[1]
Alma materHarvard University[2]
Occupationweb browser engines
OrganizationMozilla
Known forCSS, Gecko rendering engine
Websitehttps://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

Writing

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

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

References

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Baron (computer scientist).


Mozilla
Categories