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Nov 11, 2024
Igalia Chats: Web Predictions from 2014
Brian chats with Robin Berjon, looking back at a piece he wrote in 2014, predicting what the web would be like in 2024
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Oct 30, 2024
Igalia Chats: Fellowships of the Contributors 2024
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.
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Oct 8, 2024
History of the Web - Coralie Mercier
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.
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Oct 4, 2024
Igalia Chats: TPAC 2024
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about their recent trip to W3C's TPAC 2024
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,...
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Jul 12, 2023
Igalia Chats:First Person Scrollers
Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Chromium Layout engineer Ian Kilpatrick about performance
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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
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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.
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May 22, 2023
Igalia Chats: Baseline
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the new Baseline effort announced at Google IO
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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....
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Apr 4, 2023
Igalia Chats: Mega Safari Release
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the mega packed 16.4 Safari release
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Mar 29, 2023
Igalia Chats: Interop 2023
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Philip Jägenstedt about Interop 2023
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Mar 14, 2023
Igalia Chats: The Debates
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the stories and debates that capture our attention
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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
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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
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Nov 22, 2022
Igalia Chats: Web History Part V
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web History
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Apr 27, 2021
Igalia Chats: Temporal
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...
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Feb 7, 2020
Igalia Chats: Accessibility
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Martin Robinson sit down to chat about accessibility.
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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...
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