
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

Mar 29, 2022 • 43min
The UA String
Igalia's Brian Kardell, Eric Meyer and Alexander Dunaev chat about the history of the UA String and look at the substantial costs and complexities created by its evolution.

Dec 8, 2021 • 26min
Web History Pt 3
Brian Kardell and Chris Wilson discuss the early days of computers and the web, the impact of the Mosaic browser, the dominance of Netscape, and browser release pranks and traditions.

Oct 7, 2021 • 27min
Web Ecosystem Health: The MathML-Core Support Collective
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss and explain the recently announced MathML-Core Support Collective.

Aug 25, 2021 • 49min
Web Ecosystem Health Part VII
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about how the communications channels in the web ecosystem are working and how this affects things.

Jun 21, 2021 • 1h 2min
Web Ecosystem Health Part VI
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Miriam Suzanne and Rachel Andrew about who works on standards

Jun 3, 2021 • 31min
Web History Pt 2
Two friends discuss the early days of web development, the evolution of JavaScript and web technologies, the decisions made during the development of web apps, and the impact of making HTML5 an endless and versionless spec.

Apr 27, 2021 • 46min
Temporal
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Maggie Johnson-Pint (moment.js/Azure), Philipp ('Pip') Dunkel (Bloomberg Tech) and Philip Chimento (Igalia Compilers Team) about the challenges of time-related programming and the new Temporal feature (currently ECMA Stage 3) coming to JavaScript.

Feb 4, 2021 • 52min
Web Ecosystem Health Part V: Open Source
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Pia Mancini and Jory Burson about the health of the Web Ecosystem and the larger Open Source Environment.

Dec 2, 2020 • 27min
Web History Pt 1
Web History experts, Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, discuss the evolution of the web, their early experiences with the internet, the rivalry between Internet Explorer and Netscape, and their involvement in the Mozilla project.

Oct 21, 2020 • 56min
Web Ecosystem Health Part IV
Daniel Appelquist from Samsung Internet and co-chair of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group