

Igalia Chats
Igalia
Igalia’s Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Web, open standards, open source, healthy software ecosystems, the latest in browser features, and more.
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Oct 22, 2025 • 50min
The Charm of JavaScript: Boom Mics and Clown Shoes
 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
 

Oct 8, 2025 • 53min
The State of The State of Surveys
 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)
 

Sep 16, 2025 • 1h 1min
Wishes, Signals, and the Shape of Standards
 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
 

Sep 2, 2025 • 58min
Wingo on Wasm
 Andy Wingo, a compiler engineer at Igalia, dives into the fascinating world of WebAssembly (Wasm), a game-changer in web and server environments. He explores Wasm's origins from Asm.js and highlights its design goals, making it a versatile compilation target. The discussion touches on Wasm's adoption, its compatibility with languages like C and Rust, and its advantages for performance in gaming and legacy applications. Wingo also addresses the importance of garbage collection and the potential of Wasm in edge computing, showcasing its role as a vital technology for the future. 

Aug 19, 2025 • 1h 2min
RIP XSLT?
 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
 

Aug 15, 2025 • 50min
TC39 Episode 109: The Proposal Awakens
 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
 

Aug 5, 2025 • 60min
Standards, Inc: Inside the new, old organization with Seth Dobbs
 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
 

Aug 3, 2025 • 56min
Get Down With the WebKit
 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
 

Jul 14, 2025 • 52min
Show Me The Monetization
 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
 

Jun 6, 2025 • 60min
What Even is a Verifiable Credential?
 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
 


