Igalia Chats

Eric and Brian chat with Dmitri Zagidulin and Juan Caballero of the W3C's Verifiable Credentials Working Group to learn about Verifiable Credentials Mentioned Links Verifiable Credentials Use Cases arcblock Distributed Identity Foundation

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss what's caught their eye in CSS of late... Mentioned Links Hairline proposal Eric's blog post Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout CSS Custom Functions CSS fragment references in HTML proposal CSS @sheet proposal CSS Pseudo Elements IDL Design CSS Anchored Fallback Container Queries Explainer Using container scroll-state qu...

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Rick Byers about Blink's Principles of Web Compatibility and willingness to change and even unship features. Mentioned Links Blink Principles of Web Compatibility Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible? ShopTalk Show Episode 664

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss the recent US courts antitrust decision regarding advertising. Mentioned Links Ruling

Eric and Brian chat with Estelle Weyl and Will Bamberg of Open Web Docs. Mentioned Links openwebdocs.org

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Babel core maintainer Nicolò Ribaudo about the project's past, present and future. Mentioned Links babeljs.io

Igalia's Brian Kardell chats with Chris Lilley, Technical Director at the W3C, about his long history with the Web and the W3C, ranging from line-mode browsers to CSS to SVG and more. Mentioned Links Line-mode browser emulation Gopher (protocol) NCSA Mosaic Introduction to HTML 3.0 Computer Graphics Metafile Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee Project Xanadu

Eric and Brian Chat with Chris Coyier about his recent post "Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web". Mentioned Links Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web Igalia Chats: The Google Antitrust Ruling: Proposed Remedies Shop Talk Show Podcast

Brian and Eric talk about community backlash towards Mozilla after Firefox’s Terms of Use updates and other recent changes Mentioned Links Firefox Privacy Notice Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox Data and Firefox Suggest (not new)

Eric and Brian discuss the announcement of Interop 2025

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer learn about RISCV and LLVM their compilers colleague Alex Bradbury

Brian and Eric discuss listeners' answers to our question 'What are your wishes for the web platform in 2025', and share their own. Mentioned Links A Half Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys CSS Anchor Positioning Temporal API CSS Exclusions CSS Custom Media Queries Sponsor Servo Sponsor Wolvic Sponsor MathML implementations Spritely Institute

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Open Web Advocacy's Alex Moore about the Google Antitrust case in the US and proposed remedies. Mentioned Links Open Web Advocacy Welcome to Google’s nightmare: US reveals plan to destroy search monopoly U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC [2020] Executive Summary of Plaintiffs' Proposed Final Judgment (PDF) Active Choice vs. Inert...

Brian and Eric chat with Robin Bender Ginn, the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, about open source, funding and foundations. Mentioned Links ‘Magic Piles of Money’ slideshow The OpenJS Foundation The Linux Foundation

Brian chats with Robin Berjon, looking back at a piece he wrote in 2014, predicting what the web would be like in 2024 Mentioned Links Web 2024 After 5

Eric and Brian recap and discuss the big annual events geared around the Blink and WebKit engine projects, BlinkOn 19 and the WebKit Contributors Meeting. Mentioned Links BlinkOn 19 Playlist WebKit Contributors (minutes not yet posted)

Igalia's Brian Kardell chats with the Head of W3C Marketing & Communications, Coralie Mercier about the her history and relationship with the Web and the W3C.

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about their recent trip to W3C's TPAC 2024 Mentioned Links W3C TPAC TPAC Breakouts Eric's W3C Talk from a few years back

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Stephanie Stimac about web browsers, engines, funding and the health of the Web Ecosystem

Prompted by recent US court rulings, Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about court cases worldwide that could radically change how the web ecosystem is funded. Mentioned Links Google loses DOJ’s big monopoly trial over search business All the possible ways to destroy Google’s monopoly in search Webrise Igalia Chats: Rewilding the Internet We Need To Rewild The Internet Adventures in...

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Oliver Medhurst (CanadaHonk) about their novel AOT JavaScript Engine, Porffor. Mentioned Links Porffor Javy Test262.fyi Hermes

Eric and Brian talk to colleague Paulo Matos about how Igalia — a flat, worker owned business — deals with Corporate Social Responsibility, what we do, and why we believe it is interesting. Mentioned Links Igalia’s Social Responsibility Helping Three Super Heroes Race in the New York City Marathon Making the World a Better Place

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat about the history and evolution of polyfills and somehow related efforts in the wake of recent events surrounding the transfer of ownership of the polyfill.io domain

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chatted with seven different participants at the CSS Working Group’s face to face meeting at Igalia headquarters — as it happened.

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Robin Berjon about a piece he recently co-authored with Maria Farrell titled 'We Need To Rewild The Internet' about how the internet has become unhealthy and extractive, and how we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. Mentioned Links Web Ecosystem Health Playlist We Need to Rewild the Internet IPFS You're Gonna N...