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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.
Eric and Brian chat with Dmitri Zagidulin and Juan Caballero of the W3C's Verifiable Credentials Working Group to learn about Verifiable Credentials
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss what's caught their eye in CSS of late...
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.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss the recent US courts antitrust decision regarding advertising.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Babel core maintainer Nicolò Ribaudo about the project's past, present and future.
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.
Eric and Brian Chat with Chris Coyier about his recent post "Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web".
Brian and Eric talk about community backlash towards Mozilla after Firefox’s Terms of Use updates and other recent changes
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer learn about RISCV and LLVM their compilers colleague Alex Bradbury
Brian and Eric discuss listeners' answers to our question 'What are your wishes for the web platform in 2025', and share their own.
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.
Brian and Eric chat with Robin Bender Ginn, the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, about open source, funding and foundations.
Brian chats with Robin Berjon, looking back at a piece he wrote in 2014, predicting what the web would be like in 2024
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.
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's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Stephanie Stimac about web browsers, engines, funding and the health of the Web Ecosystem
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's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Oliver Medhurst (CanadaHonk) about their novel AOT JavaScript Engine, Porffor.
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.
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.
Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry
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.
Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with fellow Igalian Melissa Wen about layers and layers of things around colors.
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.
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's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the Interop Project and the complexities of organizing it.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer recap the recent CSS Working Group Face-to-Face meetings.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Miriam Suzanne about the Shadow DOM, use cases, and 'open styling' problems
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Jake Archibald and Surma about their new show and browser politics.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Chrome DevRel Bramus Van Damme, reviewing the year of change in the Web Platform.
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
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'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's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Kilian Valkhof about his Chromium-based web development app Polypane.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with CNET Principal writer Stephen Shankland about the undersea cables that help power the internet
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's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Chromium Layout engineer Ian Kilpatrick about performance
Igalia's Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a new, novel browser engine
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Martin Robinson about the recently rejuvenated Servo project.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the new Baseline effort announced at Google IO
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's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Google's Philip Jägenstedt about Interop 2023
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about the stories and debates that capture our attention
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 browsers and engines
Igalia's Brian Kardell chats with Rick Byers, Ian Kilpatrick and Neil Soiffer as Chrome 109 releases support for MathML-Core
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Brad Frost about Web Components, UI and design systems
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about discussions and decisions of the CSS Working Group’s latest face to face meeting.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about recent excitement and progress in the web platform
Stephanie Rewis, Senior Director at Salesforce, is interviewed by Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia, in Part 4 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'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.
Special edition from BlinkOn 15: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Chris Wilson about Web History
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss and explain the recently announced MathML-Core Support Collective.
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about how the communications channels in the web ecosystem are working and how this affects things.
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Miriam Suzanne and Rachel Andrew about who works on standards
Special edition from BlinkOn 14: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer about Web History
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.
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.
Special edition from BlinkOn 13: Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher about Web History
Daniel Appelquist from Samsung Internet and co-chair of the W3C's Technical Architecture Group
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Håkon Wium Lie, Bruce Lawson and Vadim Makeev
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down to chat with Google's Rick Byers and Microsoft's Rossen Atanassov to continue our discussion of rendering engine diversity and ecosystem health.
Igalia's Brian Kardell sits down with Jeremy Keith and Stuart Langridge to chat about rendering engine diversity, history and the health of the web browser ecosystem.
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 developments
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 MathML, it’s history, challenges and what’s next.