Igalia Chats
Episodes
History of the Web: Microsofties (at BlinkOn 21)
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Microsoft's Patrick Brosset continue our History of the Web series with a panel discussion at BlinkOn 21 with peo...
npmx : The People‑Powered Package Index
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Kardell and Ujjwal Sharma chat with Daniel Roe and Matias 'Patak' Capeletto of npmx about the project, the community and Open Source ...
Servo & the BCD features Pokédex
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric talk with Dietrich Ayala about the ever‑expanding Pokédex we call the Web Platform — 15,000 BCD keys, 1,100 Web Features, and a gr...
The Clock Thickens: Temporal Advances to Stage 4
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric chat with Igalia's Philip Chimento, Nicolò Ribaudo and Bloomberg's Jason Williams about JavaScript’s new Temporal API. ...
Real World CSS: Always Interesting, Occasionally Hilarious
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A chat with Bart Veneman of Project Wallace about the study of CSS on the Web Mentioned Links Project Wallace ...
Interop 2026
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the launch of Interop 2026 Mentioned Links Interop 2026 Da...
Creative Web Design
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Eric Meyer and Ujjwal Sharma chat with designer, CSS developer, and illustrator Lynn Fisher Mentioned Links ...
The Creative Web
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with designer, CSS developer, and illustrator Lynn Fisher Mentioned Links ...
What we're looking forward to...
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about what they're interested in and looking forward to in 2026 and beyond Mentioned Link...
Signals in the Streams
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian talk with their colleague Thibault Saunier about Igalia's multimedia work with GStreamer Mentioned Links ...
Open Source FEX Appeal: Inside Igalia's work on Steam devices
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Dhruv Mark Collins to discuss Igalia's work with Valve on the Steam devices! Mentioned L...
Web Backstories: Shadow DOM
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Jay Hoffmann and Jeremy Keith about Shadow DOM's backstory and long origins Mentioned Links ...
Accessibility and the Free Labor Funnel
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility. Mentioned L...
The Charm of JavaScript: Boom Mics and Clown Shoes
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mat 'Wilto' Marquis joins Igalia Chats to get weird and talk about JavaScript, boxing, charity and platform permanence. Mentioned Li...
The State of The State of Surveys
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Sacha Greif about the various popular 'State of' surveys he organizes Mentioned...
Wishes, Signals, and the Shape of Standards
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with the W3C's Dominique Hazaël-Massieux about ways that we try to involve developers and develo...
Wingo on Wasm
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Andy Wingo about Web Assembly Mentioned Links ...
RIP XSLT?
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Liam Quin about a recent issue in WHATWG regarding the removal of XSLT Mentioned Links ...
TC39 Episode 109: The Proposal Awakens
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric talk to their TC39 representative colleagues Nic and Ujjwal about TC39 in general, and the most recent meeting. Mentioned Links...
Standards, Inc: Inside the new, old organization with Seth Dobbs
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric sit down to chat with W3C's new CEO Seth Dobbs about the W3C and standards Mentioned Links w...
Get Down With the WebKit
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Igalia's Alejandro (Alex) Garcia about the WebKit project and Igalia's WPE port. Mentioned Li...
Show Me The Monetization
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the past, present and future of funding and 'micropayments'. Mentioned Links ...
What Even is a Verifiable Credential?
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian chat with Dmitri Zagidulin and Juan Caballero of the W3C's Verifiable Credentials Working Group to learn about Verifiable Credenti...
CSS Proposals and Debates
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss what's caught their eye in CSS of late... Mentioned Links ...
Unshipping: How (and when) to break web features
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Rick Byers about Blink's Principles of Web Compatibility and willingness to ch...
Adpocalypse Now?
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss the recent US courts antitrust decision regarding advertising. Mentioned Links ...
Open Web Docs
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian chat with Estelle Weyl and Will Bamberg of Open Web Docs. Mentioned Links openwebdocs.org ...
Babel
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Babel core maintainer Nicolò Ribaudo about the project's past, present and future. ...
History of the Web: Chris Lilley
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What Happens If They Sell Chrome?
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian Chat with Chris Coyier about his recent post "Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web". Mentioned ...
Mozilla Changes
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric talk about community backlash towards Mozilla after Firefox’s Terms of Use updates and other recent changes Mentioned Links ...
Interop 2025
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian discuss the announcement of Interop 2025
RISCy Business
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer learn about RISCV and LLVM their compilers colleague Alex Bradbury
2025 Web Wishes
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric discuss listeners' answers to our question 'What are your wishes for the web platform in 2025', and share their own. ...
The Google Antitrust Ruling: Proposed Remedies
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Open Web Advocacy's Alex Moore about the Google Antitrust case in the US and proposed remedi...
Magic Piles of Money
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric chat with Robin Bender Ginn, the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, about open source, funding and foundations. Menti...
Web Predictions from 2014
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian chats with Robin Berjon, looking back at a piece he wrote in 2014, predicting what the web would be like in 2024 Mentioned Links ...
Fellowships of the Contributors 2024
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian recap and discuss the big annual events geared around the Blink and WebKit engine projects, BlinkOn 19 and the WebKit Contributors Meet...
History of the Web - Coralie Mercier
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell chats with the Head of W3C Marketing & Communications, Coralie Mercier about the her history and relationship with the...
TPAC 2024
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about their recent trip to W3C's TPAC 2024 Mentioned Links ...
Stephanie Stimac
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Stephanie Stimac about web browsers, engines, funding and the health of the Web Ecosyst...
The Coming Adpocalypse
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prompted by recent US court rulings, Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about court cases worldwide that could radically change how the w...
Novel JavaScript Engines: Porffor
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Oliver Medhurst (CanadaHonk) about their novel AOT JavaScript Engine, Porffor. Mentioned ...
Social Responsibility at Igalia
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian talk to colleague Paulo Matos about how Igalia — a flat, worker owned business — deals with Corporate Social Responsibility, what w...
Polyfills, Trust and Progress
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat about the history and evolution of polyfills and somehow related efforts in the wake of recent events surrounding th...
CSS Working Group Face To Face Live!
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chatted with seven different participants at the CSS Working Group’s face to face meeting at Igalia headq...
Rewilding the Internet
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Rew...
Stone Cold Masonry
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry Men...
Tackling The Web's Oldest Problem
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ju...
Color Us Captivated!
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with fellow Igalian Melissa Wen about layers and layers of things around colors.
Getting Started in Standards
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Mozillan and HTML editor Simon Pieters, and fellow Igalian/engine contributor Luke Warlow about g...
Mailbag!
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Brian open up the viewer mailbag to talk about recent AI and Accessibility posts, memory-safe browsers, backwards compatibility and platform ...
The Interop Project - Prioritization Stew
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Interop Project and the complexities of organizing it.
CSS Working Group Face-to-Face Recap
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer recap the recent CSS Working Group Face-to-Face meetings.
A Lighter Shade of DOM
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Miriam Suzanne about the Shadow DOM, use cases, and 'open styling' problems
Browser Politics and You
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Jake Archibald and Surma about their new show and browser politics.
2023 Year in Review
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Chrome DevRel Bramus Van Damme, reviewing the year of change in the Web Platform.
The Struggle to Keep Up with Web Tech
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Web Components are Having a Moment
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web Components and the recent flurry of posts about them.
The Power of CSS
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Roma Komarov about CSS experiments and the power of CSS
Tech Unions and Co-Ops
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Valerie Young about Co-Ops
Web History Part VI
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Sullivan, Product Manager for Web UI on Chrome is interviewed by Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia, in Part 6 of our History of the W...
Web Applications 1.0
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer look back on things developing in WHATWG specs in 2004 and chat about what we've gotten and what remai...
Polypane
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Kilian Valkhof about his Chromium-based web development app Polypane.
Undersea Infrastructure
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with CNET Principal writer Stephen Shankland about the undersea cables that help power the internet ...
11ty, Open Source and Funding
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with 11ty creator Zach Leatherman about the project's shift from hobby work to a sponsor-funded f...
First Person Scrollers
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Chromium Layout engineer Ian Kilpatrick about performance
The Novel Engines: Ladybird (Web Ecosystem Health Part XI)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a new, novel browser engine
The Novel Engines: Servo (Web Ecosystem Health Part X)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Martin Robinson about the recently rejuvenated Servo project.
Baseline
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the new Baseline effort announced at Google IO
Steam Powered Open Source
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell sit down to chat with fellow Igalians Samuel Iglesias and Clayton Craft about the Steam Deck and interesting work that Ig...
Mega Safari Release
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the mega packed 16.4 Safari release
Interop 2023
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Philip Jägenstedt about Interop 2023
The Debates
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the stories and debates that capture our attention
Web Ecosystem Health Part IX: economics
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia chats/Shop Talk crossover - Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from the Shop Talk Show about the economics of ...
MathML-Core Release
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell chats with Rick Byers, Ian Kilpatrick and Neil Soiffer as Chrome 109 releases support for MathML-Core
Web History Part V
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about Web History
Web Components with Brad Frost
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Brad Frost about Web Components, UI and design systems
The Latest From the CSS Working Group
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about discussions and decisions of the CSS Working Group’s latest face to face meeting.
The history of :focus-visible and inert
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Alice Boxhall and Rob Dodson
Web Progress Excitement
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about recent excitement and progress in the web platform
Web History Part IV
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Rewis, Senior Director at Salesforce, is interviewed by Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia, in Part 4 of our History of the Web ser...
The UA String
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell, Eric Meyer and Alexander Dunaev chat about the history of the UA String and look at the substantial costs and complexitie...
Web History Pt 3
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Special edition from BlinkOn 15: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Chris Wilson about Web History
Web Ecosystem Health: The MathML-Core Support Collective
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss and explain the recently announced MathML-Core Support Collective.
Web Ecosystem Health Part VII
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about how the communications channels in the web ecosystem are working and how this affects things. ...
Web Ecosystem Health Part VI
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Miriam Suzanne and Rachel Andrew about who works on standards
Web History Pt 2
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Special edition from BlinkOn 14: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer about Web History
Temporal
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Maggie Johnson-Pint (moment.js/Azure), Philipp ('Pip') Dunkel (Bloomberg Tech) and Philip...
Web Ecosystem Health Part V: Open Source
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Enviro...
Web History Pt 1
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Special edition from BlinkOn 13: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher about Web History
Web Ecosystem Health Part IV
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Appelquist from Samsung Internet and co-chair of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group
Web Ecosystem Health Part III
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Håkon Wium Lie, Bruce Lawson and Vadim Makeev
Web Ecosystem Health Part II
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Google's Rick Byers and Microsoft's Rossen Atanassov to continue our discussion of render...
Web Ecosystem Health
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down with Jeremy Keith and Stuart Langridge to chat about rendering engine diversity, history and the health of the w...
WebKit, SVG and WPE
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Nikolas Zimmermann talk about the history of SVG and Web browsers, and how WPE and embedded systems are bringing new d...
Accessibility
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Martin Robinson sit down to chat about accessibility.
Igalia Chats with Neil Soiffer on MathML
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Igalia’s Brian Kardell sat down with Neil Soiffer, long time MathML advocate and chair of the current MathML Refresh Community Group to chat about M...