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Sep 10, 2024

Igalia Chats: Stephanie Stimac

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

Aug 20, 2024

Igalia Chats: The Coming Adpocalypse

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.

Aug 7, 2024

Igalia Chats: Novel JavaScript Engines: Porffor

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

Jul 29, 2024

Igalia Chats: Social Responsibility at Igalia

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...

Jul 9, 2024

Igalia Chats: Polyfills, Trust and Progress

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...

Jun 19, 2024

Igalia Chats: CSS Working Group Face To Face Live!

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.

Jun 5, 2024

Igalia Chats: Rewilding the Internet

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...

May 8, 2024

Igalia Chats: Stone Cold Masonry

Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry

Apr 30, 2024

Tackling The Web's Oldest Problem

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....

Apr 23, 2024

Color Us Captivated!

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

Apr 2, 2024

Getting Started in Standards

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.

Mar 19, 2024

Igalia Chats: Mailbag!

Eric and Brian open up the viewer mailbag to talk about recent AI and Accessibility posts, memory-safe browsers, backwards compatibility and platform regrets, dealing with tech debt, and more

Mar 1, 2024

Igalia Chats: The Interop Project - Prioritization Stew

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Interop Project and the complexities of organizing it.

Feb 20, 2024

Igalia Chats: CSS Working Group Face-to-Face Recap

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer recap the recent CSS Working Group Face-to-Face meetings.

Feb 2, 2024

Igalia Chats: A Lighter Shade of DOM

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Miriam Suzanne about the Shadow DOM, use cases, and 'open styling' problems

Jan 14, 2024

Igalia Chats: Browser Politics and You

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Jake Archibald and Surma about their new show and browser politics.

Dec 18, 2023

Igalia Chats: 2023 Year in Review

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Chrome DevRel Bramus Van Damme, reviewing the year of change in the Web Platform.

Dec 6, 2023

Igalia Chats: The Struggle to Keep Up with Web Tech

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell talk about the experience of discovering a web feature that’s been around for a while but nobody told you about it, the challenge of keeping...

Nov 21, 2023

Igalia Chats: Web Components are Having a Moment

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web Components and the recent flurry of posts about them.

Nov 13, 2023

Igalia Chats: The Power of CSS

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Roma Komarov about CSS experiments and the power of CSS

Nov 6, 2023

Igalia Chats: Tech Unions and Co-Ops

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Valerie Young about Co-Ops

Oct 23, 2023

Igalia Chats: Web History Part VI

Nicole Sullivan, Product Manager for Web UI on Chrome is interviewed by Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia, in Part 6 of our History of the Web series designed to...

Sep 1, 2023

Igalia Chats: Web Applications 1.0

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer look back on things developing in WHATWG specs in 2004 and chat about what we've gotten and what remains outstanding.

Aug 22, 2023

Igalia Chats: Polypane

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Kilian Valkhof about his Chromium-based web development app Polypane.

Aug 11, 2023

Igalia Chats: Undersea Infrastructure

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with CNET Principal writer Stephen Shankland about the undersea cables that help power the internet

Jul 27, 2023

Igalia Chats: 11ty, Open Source and Funding

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with 11ty creator Zach Leatherman about the project's shift from hobby work to a sponsor-funded full-time job and back again to hobby work,...

Jul 12, 2023

Igalia Chats:First Person Scrollers

Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Chromium Layout engineer Ian Kilpatrick about performance

Jul 6, 2023

The Novel Engines: Ladybird (Web Ecosystem Health Part XI)

Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a new, novel browser engine

Jun 26, 2023

The Novel Engines: Servo (Web Ecosystem Health Part X)

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Martin Robinson about the recently rejuvenated Servo project.

May 22, 2023

Igalia Chats: Baseline

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the new Baseline effort announced at Google IO

May 15, 2023

Igalia Chats: Steam Powered Open Source

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell sit down to chat with fellow Igalians Samuel Iglesias and Clayton Craft about the Steam Deck and interesting work that Igalia does to power it....

Apr 4, 2023

Igalia Chats: Mega Safari Release

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the mega packed 16.4 Safari release

Mar 29, 2023

Igalia Chats: Interop 2023

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Philip Jägenstedt about Interop 2023

Mar 14, 2023

Igalia Chats: The Debates

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the stories and debates that capture our attention

Feb 16, 2023

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health Part IX: economics

Igalia chats/Shop Talk crossover - Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from the Shop Talk Show about the economics of browsers and engines

Jan 4, 2023

Igalia Chats: MathML-Core Release

Igalia's Brian Kardell chats with Rick Byers, Ian Kilpatrick and Neil Soiffer as Chrome 109 releases support for MathML-Core

Nov 22, 2022

Igalia Chats: Web History Part V

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web History

Nov 10, 2022

Igalia Chats: Web Components with Brad Frost

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Brad Frost about Web Components, UI and design systems

Aug 25, 2022

Igalia Chats: The Latest From the CSS Working Group

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about discussions and decisions of the CSS Working Group’s latest face to face meeting.

Jul 11, 2022

Igalia Chats: The history of :focus-visible and inert

Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Alice Boxhall and Rob Dodson

May 31, 2022

Igalia Chats: Web Progress Excitement

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about recent excitement and progress in the web platform

May 24, 2022

Igalia Chats: Web History Part IV

Stephanie Rewis, Senior Director at Salesforce, is interviewed by Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia, in Part 4 of our History of the Web series designed to tell the story...

Mar 29, 2022

Igalia Chats: The UA String

Igalia's Brian Kardell, Eric Meyer and Alexander Dunaev chat about the history of the UA String and look at the substantial costs and complexities created by its evolution.

Dec 8, 2021

Igalia Chats: Web History Pt 3

Special edition from BlinkOn 15: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Chris Wilson about Web History

Oct 7, 2021

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health: The MathML-Core Support Collective

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss and explain the recently announced MathML-Core Support Collective.

Aug 25, 2021

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health Part VII

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about how the communications channels in the web ecosystem are working and how this affects things.

Jun 21, 2021

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health Part VI

Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Miriam Suzanne and Rachel Andrew about who works on standards

Jun 3, 2021

Igalia Chats: Web History Pt 2

Special edition from BlinkOn 14: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer about Web History

Apr 27, 2021

Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Maggie Johnson-Pint (moment.js/Azure), Philipp ('Pip') Dunkel (Bloomberg Tech) and Philip Chimento (Igalia Compilers Team) about the challenges of time-related programming and the...

Feb 4, 2021

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health Part V: Open Source

Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Pia Mancini and Jory Burson about the health of the Web Ecosystem and the larger Open Source Environment.

Dec 2, 2020

Igalia Chats: Web History Pt 1

Special edition from BlinkOn 13: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher about Web History

Oct 21, 2020

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health Part IV

Daniel Appelquist from Samsung Internet and co-chair of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group

Sep 11, 2020

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health Part III

Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Håkon Wium Lie, Bruce Lawson and Vadim Makeev

Jul 6, 2020

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health Part II

Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Google's Rick Byers and Microsoft's Rossen Atanassov to continue our discussion of rendering engine diversity and ecosystem health.

Jun 15, 2020

Igalia Chats: Web Ecosystem Health

Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down with Jeremy Keith and Stuart Langridge to chat about rendering engine diversity, history and the health of the web browser ecosystem.

Apr 15, 2020

Igalia Chats: WebKit, SVG and WPE

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Nikolas Zimmermann talk about the history of SVG and Web browsers, and how WPE and embedded systems are bringing new developments

Feb 7, 2020

Igalia Chats: Accessibility

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Martin Robinson sit down to chat about accessibility.

Dec 3, 2019

Igalia Chats with Neil Soiffer on MathML

Igalia’s Brian Kardell sat down with Neil Soiffer, long time MathML advocate and chair of the current MathML Refresh Community Group to chat about MathML, it’s history, challenges and what’s...