Igalia Chats

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Microsoft's Patrick Brosset continue our History of the Web series with a panel discussion at BlinkOn 21 with people who witnessed the transition from IE to the modern Chromium-based Edge era Mentioned Links video version History of the Web playlist

Brian Kardell and Ujjwal Sharma chat with Daniel Roe and Matias 'Patak' Capeletto of npmx about the project, the community and Open Source Mentioned Links npmx.dev

Brian and Eric talk with Dietrich Ayala about the ever‑expanding Pokédex we call the Web Platform — 15,000 BCD keys, 1,100 Web Features, and a growth rate that makes “catching up” feel like chasing a legendary. Mentioned Links Servo Baseline Readiness Web-Features Baseline metafluff.com

Brian and Eric chat with Igalia's Philip Chimento, Nicolò Ribaudo and Bloomberg's Jason Williams about JavaScript’s new Temporal API. Mentioned Links MDN Documentation 2021 Temporal Episode

A chat with Bart Veneman of Project Wallace about the study of CSS on the Web Mentioned Links Project Wallace The CSS Selection - 2026 Edition

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the launch of Interop 2026 Mentioned Links Interop 2026 Dashboard Interop 2025 Dashboard Dave Rupert's Website (View Transition example)

Igalia's Eric Meyer and Ujjwal Sharma chat with designer, CSS developer, and illustrator Lynn Fisher Mentioned Links lynnandtonic.com Nestflix Dress David Rose Airport Codes Open Source, Open Hearts US Flags [dot] Design Holywood Age Gap

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about what they're interested in and looking forward to in 2026 and beyond Mentioned Links Igalia Chats Steam Episode Igalia Chats Headings Episode

Eric and Brian talk with their colleague Thibault Saunier about Igalia's multimedia work with GStreamer Mentioned Links GStreamer Gravitational waves discovery

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Dhruv Mark Collins to discuss Igalia's work with Valve on the Steam devices! Mentioned Links Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices Steam Powered Open Source (Igalia Chats May 2023)

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Jay Hoffmann and Jeremy Keith about Shadow DOM's backstory and long origins Mentioned Links Component Model Use Cases Shadow tree encapsulation theory The History of the Web XBL2: First Thoughts and Use Cases 'Web Components' email

Brian and Eric chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility. Mentioned Links A threat model for accessibility on the web Accessibility is a Hydra

Mat 'Wilto' Marquis joins Igalia Chats to get weird and talk about JavaScript, boxing, charity and platform permanence. Mentioned Links JavaScript for Everyone course Mat's Website Mat on Mastodon Mat on Bluesky XKCD Workflow XKCD The Meetup

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Sacha Greif about the various popular 'State of' surveys he organizes Mentioned Links State of CSS 2025 Results State of JS 2025 State of HTML 2025 Devographics (& more surveys)

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with the W3C's Dominique Hazaël-Massieux about ways that we try to involve developers and developer input into standards Mentioned Links Eric's post about XSLT drama Recent episode on XSLT drama Interop 2025 Dashboard Interop Project / Call for Proposals W3C Developers Web Platform DX Features Project

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Andy Wingo about Web Assembly Mentioned Links WebAssembly: Yes, but for What? Wasm-Core Standard When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Liam Quin about a recent issue in WHATWG regarding the removal of XSLT Mentioned Links house.gov Blink Principles of Web Compatibility Microsoft Patent Issue NIST XSL Tool XSLT in Rust SaxonJS

Brian and Eric talk to their TC39 representative colleagues Nic and Ujjwal about TC39 in general, and the most recent meeting. Mentioned Links Agenda with proposal links Mozilla amount element explainer

Brian and Eric sit down to chat with W3C's new CEO Seth Dobbs about the W3C and standards Mentioned Links w3.org Get Involved Vision Announcement W3C's 2025-2028 Strategic Objectives Initiatives W3C Team's AI & the Web Impact Anaylysis

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Igalia's Alejandro (Alex) Garcia about the WebKit project and Igalia's WPE port. Mentioned Links webkit.org wpewebkit.org Episode 2: WebKit, SVG and WPE

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the past, present and future of funding and 'micropayments'. Mentioned Links Micropayments History Web Bucks Shop Talk Episode 672 Offerwall W3C CG Draft Supertab

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 queries Disallow mix/random/tree-counting functions in some contexts #10982 Impact of masks on hit-testing needs to be specified #11339

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. Inertia? An Exploratory Analysis of Choice Screen Applied in the European Microsoft Antitrust Case

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 Collective Implementation Web Ecosystem Health (YouTube Playlist)

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 Need a Bigger Browser LUCID — Lightweight Universal CIDs

Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry Mentioned Links Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka “Masonry” layout An alternative proposal for CSS masonry CSS Grid Layout Module Level 3 (Editor’s Draft, 1 November 2023)

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with GitHub's Keith Cirkel about new work that GitHub is spearheading to help solve what might just be the Web's oldest problem: Headings. Mentioned Links Intent to Prototype: headingstart attribute. Mu-An Chiou Clay Miller GitHub headingoffset polyfill github-ally extension

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with fellow Igalian Melissa Wen about layers and layers of things around colors.

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Mozillan and HTML editor Simon Pieters, and fellow Igalian/engine contributor Luke Warlow about getting started in web standards.