Igalia Chats

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