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Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions for companies across the globe. Our work and contributions are present in many projects such as GStreamer, Mesa 3D, WebKit, Chromium, etc.

Igalia


    • May 28, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 47m AVG DURATION
    • 73 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Igalia

    CSS Proposals and Debates

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 46:31


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss what's caught their eye in CSS of late...

    Unshipping: How (and when) to break web features

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 50:37


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Rick Byers about Blink's Principles of Web Compatibility and willingness to change and even unship features.

    Adpocalypse Now?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 33:51


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss the recent US courts antitrust decision regarding advertising.

    Open Web Docs

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 51:40


    Eric and Brian chat with Estelle Weyl and Will Bamberg of Open Web Docs.

    Babel

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 45:49


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 47:27


    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-mode browsers to CSS to SVG and more.

    What Happens If They Sell Chrome?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 52:49


    Eric and Brian Chat with Chris Coyier about his recent post "Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web".

    Mozilla Changes

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 43:25


    Brian and Eric talk about community backlash towards Mozilla after Firefox's Terms of Use updates and other recent changes

    Interop 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 38:05


    Eric and Brian discuss the announcement of Interop 2025

    RISCy Business

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 52:33


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer learn about RISCV and LLVM their compilers colleague Alex Bradbury

    2025 Web Wishes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 45:35


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025 56:18


    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 remedies.

    Igalia Chats: Magic Piles of Money

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 51:37


    Brian and Eric chat with Robin Bender Ginn, the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, about open source, funding and foundations.

    Igalia Chats: Web Predictions from 2014

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 36:34


    Brian chats with Robin Berjon, looking back at a piece he wrote in 2014, predicting what the web would be like in 2024

    Igalia Chats: Fellowships of the Contributors 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 51:43


    Eric and Brian recap and discuss the big annual events geared around the Blink and WebKit engine projects, BlinkOn 19 and the Webkit Contributors Meeting.

    History of the Web - Coralie Mercier

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 46:51


    Igalia's Brian Kardell chats with the Head of W3C Marketing & Communications, Coralie Mercier about the her history and relationship with the Web and the W3C.

    Igalia Chats: TPAC 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 52:09


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about their recent trip to W3C's TPAC 2024

    Igalia Chats: Stephanie Stimac

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 50:13


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Stephanie Stimac about web browsers, engines, funding and the health of the Web Ecosystem

    Igalia Chats: The Coming Adpocalypse

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 46:38


    Prompted by recent US court rulings, Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about court cases worldwide that could radically change how the web ecosystem is funded.

    Igalia Chats: Novel JavaScript Engines: Porffor

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 43:22


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Oliver Medhurst (CanadaHonk) about their novel AOT JavaScript Engine, Porffor.

    Igalia Chats: Social Responsibility at Igalia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 39:36


    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.

    Igalia Chats: Polyfills, Trust and Progress

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 51:54


    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 Chats: CSS Working Group Face To Face Live!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2024 60:41


    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.

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    Igalia Chats: Rewilding the Internet

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 58:49


    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.

    Igalia Chats: Stone Cold Masonry

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024 51:37


    Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry

    Tackling The Web's Oldest Problem

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 45:09


    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.

    Color Us Captivated!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 51:06


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

    Getting Started in Standards

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 53:57


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Mozillan and HTML editor Simon Pieters, and fellow Igalian/engine contributor Luke Warlow about getting started in web standards.

    Igalia Chats: Mailbag!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 41:30


    Eric and Brian open up the viewer mailbag to talk about recent AI and Accessibility posts, memory-safe browsers, backwards compatibility and platform regrets, dealing with tech debt, and more

    Igalia Chats: The Interop Project - Prioritization Stew

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 38:12


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Interop Project and the complexities of organizing it.

    Igalia Chats: CSS Working Group Face-to-Face Recap

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 44:09


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

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    Igalia Chats: A Lighter Shade of DOM

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 52:35


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Miriam Suzanne about the Shadow DOM, use cases, and 'open styling' problems

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    Igalia Chats: Browser Politics and You

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 51:52


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Jake Archibald and Surma about their new show and browser politics.

    Igalia Chats: 2023 Year in Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2023 58:31


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Chrome DevRel Bramus Van Damme, reviewing the year of change in the Web Platform.

    Igalia Chats: The Struggle to Keep Up with Web Tech

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 63:13


    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 Chats: Web Components are Having a Moment

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 42:02


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

    Igalia Chats: The Power of CSS

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 55:06


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

    Igalia Chats: Tech Unions and Co-Ops

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2023 52:48


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Valerie Young about Co-Ops

    Igalia Chats: Web History Part VI

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023 42:31


    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 Web series designed to tell the story of the web from the people who helped build, shape, and promote it

    Igalia Chats: Web Applications 1.0

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 49:16


    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 remains outstanding.

    Igalia Chats: Polypane

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 39:10


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Kilian Valkhof about his Chromium-based web development app Polypane.

    Igalia Chats: Undersea Infrastructure

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2023 51:52


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with CNET Principal writer Stephen Shankland about the undersea cables that help power the internet

    Igalia Chats: 11ty, Open Source and Funding

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2023 64:23


    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 full-time job and back again to hobby work, and his evolving thoughts on open source and how to support it.

    Igalia Chats:First Person Scrollers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2023 67:37


    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)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 54:18


    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)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2023 61:43


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Martin Robinson about the recently rejuvenated Servo project.

    Igalia Chats: Baseline

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 34:37


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the new Baseline effort announced at Google IO

    Igalia Chats: Steam Powered Open Source

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2023 41:23


    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 Igalia does to power it.

    Igalia Chats: Mega Safari Release

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2023 36:24


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the mega packed 16.4 Safari release

    Igalia Chats: Interop 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 48:26


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Philip Jägenstedt about Interop 2023

    Igalia Chats: The Debates

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2023 46:19


    Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the stories and debates that capture our attention

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