Igalia Chats

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

Robin Berjon, a freelance technologist known for his sharp insights on governance problems, revisits his 2014 predictions for the web's future. He and Brian discuss key milestones, from HTML5 completion to the evolution of Single Page Applications (SPAs). They humorously identify accurate forecasts and misjudgments, while reflecting on advancements in MathML and PDF rendering. The conversation also addresses challenges in standardizing technologies and the need for flexible standards that encourage innovation across diverse tech ecosystems.