Igalia Chats

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

The podcast dives into a landmark antitrust decision against Google, sparking discussions on its impact on online advertising. The hosts explore the monopolistic dynamics of digital advertising, unveiling the complexities of ad transactions and the historical context of tech acquisitions. They examine the evolving interpretations of market dominance, drawing parallels with past cases like Microsoft's. The episode also navigates the intricate relationship between advertising revenue and antitrust issues, highlighting the challenges and tensions in the tech landscape.

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