Igalia Chats

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.

Miriam Suzanne, an expert in Shadow DOM and 'open styling' problems, joins Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer on Igalia Chats. They discuss the history and development of the Shadow DOM, CSS-based DOM segmentation and selectors, managing styles in custom elements, coordinating layers in component and page authoring, customization and feedback, and the exploration of layer names and intentional crossover.

Jake Archibald and Surma discuss browser politics, user base importance, the need for a declarative approach, tools for gathering developer insights, Google's investment in CSS, and limitations of the web platform. Tune in to learn more!

Bramus Van Damme, Chrome DevRel, joins Igalia Chats for a review of the year in web platform development. They discuss scroll-driven animations and view transitions, implementing subgrid, exploring the intersection of CSS and JavaScript, analyzing new media queries, processing data with resolvers, and predictions for the future of web platform development.

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell talk about the experience of discovering a web feature that’s been around for a while but nobody told you about it, the challenge of keeping up with new web platform features when there’s so much happening, and their tips for ways to stay as up to date as you can.

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web Components and the recent flurry of posts about them.

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Roma Komarov about CSS experiments and the power of CSS

Valerie Young joins Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer to discuss the concept of tech unions and co-ops. They explore the organizational structure and decision-making in a cooperative, thresholds and transparency in cooperatively managed companies, and the essential ingredients for starting and running a cooperative. They also discuss the possibility of organizing a co-op track at a conference and the experiences and contrasts of co-ops, standards, and free software projects.

Nicole Sullivan, Product Manager for Web UI on Chrome, and Brian Kardell discuss the early days of the internet, transitioning to tech, moving to a foreign country, learning a computer language, exploring behaviors in Internet Explorer, and building tools to contribute to the web.