Igalia Chats

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

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.

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. Mentioned Links Web Ecosystem Health Playlist We Need to Rewild the Internet IPFS You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser LUCID — Lightweight Universal CIDs

Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry Mentioned Links Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka “Masonry” layout An alternative proposal for CSS masonry CSS Grid Layout Module Level 3 (Editor’s Draft, 1 November 2023)

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. Mentioned Links Intent to Prototype: headingstart attribute. Mu-An Chiou Clay Miller GitHub headingoffset polyfill github-ally extension

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with fellow Igalian Melissa Wen about layers and layers of things around colors.

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.

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.

Discussions on the complexities of prioritizing issues in the Interop Project, managing over 3000 open issues in the CSS working group, and the significance of honesty, transparency, and clear communication in team decision-making. Also, explores the debate around prioritizing JPG XL and the importance of GitHub stars in decision-making.

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer recap the recent CSS Working Group Face-to-Face meetings.