
Igalia Chats
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.
Latest episodes

Aug 7, 2024 • 43min
Novel JavaScript Engines: Porffor
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Oliver Medhurst (CanadaHonk) about their novel AOT JavaScript Engine, Porffor.

Jul 29, 2024 • 40min
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 it is interesting.

Jul 9, 2024 • 52min
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 polyfill.io domain

Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 1min
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.

Jun 5, 2024 • 59min
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 has become unhealthy and extractive, and how we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

May 8, 2024 • 52min
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

Apr 30, 2024 • 45min
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.

Apr 23, 2024 • 51min
Color Us Captivated!
Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with fellow Igalian Melissa Wen about layers and layers of things around colors.

Apr 2, 2024 • 54min
Getting Started in Standards
Mozillan Simon Pieters and Igalian Luke Warlow talk about their journey contributing to web standards. They discuss challenges in aligning components, historical evolution of headings, and navigating standards organizations. They also touch on contributing to browsers and the importance of patience in proposing solutions.

Mar 19, 2024 • 42min
Mailbag!
Igalia Chats: Mailbag! explores topics such as AI improving accessibility, memory-safe browsers, web standards evolution, backward compatibility dilemmas, and dealing with tech debt. The lively discussion delves into personalization in interfaces, funding initiatives for Rust projects, using AI for layout generation, and the challenges of integrating real maps into HTML.