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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,[2] and was employed by Mozilla in 2003 to help develop and evolve the Gecko rendering engine, eventually as a Distinguished Engineer[5] in 2013.[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][11] In 2021 he joined Google to work on Google Chrome.[12]

Notable inventions

  • Reftests — automated visual tests of browser engine rendering[13]
  • CSS animations implementation in Gecko[14]

Writing

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

  • CSS Color Module Level 3 Recommendation[3]
  • CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3 Candidate Recommendation[4]
  • CSS Animations Level 1 Working Draft[15]
  • CSS Overflow Module Level 3 Working Draft[16]
  • CSS Transitions Working Draft[17]

Baron was also a technical reviewer of the book "Transitions and Animations in CSS: Adding Motion with CSS".[18]

References

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External links

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