What Even is a Verifiable Credential?
Eric and Brian chat with Dmitri Zagidulin and Juan Caballero of the W3C's Verifiable Credentials Working Group to learn about Verifiable Credentials
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr
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.
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Episodes
CSS Proposals and Debates
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss what's caught their eye in CSS of late...
May 28, 2025•47 min
Unshipping: How (and when) to break web features
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.
May 19, 2025•51 min
Adpocalypse Now?
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss the recent US courts antitrust decision regarding advertising.
Apr 29, 2025•34 min
Open Web Docs
Eric and Brian chat with Estelle Weyl and Will Bamberg of Open Web Docs.
Apr 23, 2025•52 min
Babel
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Babel core maintainer Nicolò Ribaudo about the project's past, present and future.
Apr 16, 2025•46 min
History of the Web: Chris Lilley
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.
Apr 08, 2025•47 min
What Happens If They Sell Chrome?
Eric and Brian Chat with Chris Coyier about his recent post "Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web".
Mar 24, 2025•53 min
Mozilla Changes
Brian and Eric talk about community backlash towards Mozilla after Firefox’s Terms of Use updates and other recent changes
Mar 04, 2025•43 min
Interop 2025
Eric and Brian discuss the announcement of Interop 2025
Feb 13, 2025•38 min
RISCy Business
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer learn about RISCV and LLVM their compilers colleague Alex Bradbury
Jan 30, 2025•53 min
2025 Web Wishes
Brian and Eric discuss listeners' answers to our question 'What are your wishes for the web platform in 2025', and share their own.
Jan 07, 2025•46 min
The Google Antitrust Ruling: Proposed Remedies
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.
Jan 02, 2025•56 min
Magic Piles of Money
Brian and Eric chat with Robin Bender Ginn, the Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, about open source, funding and foundations.
Dec 04, 2024•52 min
Web Predictions from 2014
Brian chats with Robin Berjon, looking back at a piece he wrote in 2014, predicting what the web would be like in 2024
Nov 11, 2024•37 min
Fellowships of the Contributors 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.
Oct 30, 2024•52 min
History of the Web - Coralie Mercier
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.
Oct 08, 2024•47 min
TPAC 2024
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk about their recent trip to W3C's TPAC 2024
Oct 04, 2024•52 min
Stephanie Stimac
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Stephanie Stimac about web browsers, engines, funding and the health of the Web Ecosystem
Sep 10, 2024•50 min
The Coming Adpocalypse
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.
Aug 20, 2024•47 min
Novel JavaScript Engines: Porffor
Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Oliver Medhurst (CanadaHonk) about their novel AOT JavaScript Engine, Porffor.
Aug 07, 2024•43 min
Social Responsibility at Igalia
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.
Jul 29, 2024•40 min
Polyfills, Trust and Progress
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
Jul 09, 2024•52 min
CSS Working Group Face To Face Live!
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.
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Rewilding the Internet
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.
Jun 05, 2024•59 min
Stone Cold Masonry
Brian and Eric talk with Google's Rachel Andrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry
May 08, 2024•52 min
Tackling The Web's Oldest Problem
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.
Apr 30, 2024•45 min
Color Us Captivated!
Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with fellow Igalian Melissa Wen about layers and layers of things around colors.
Apr 23, 2024•51 min
Getting Started in Standards
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.
Apr 02, 2024•54 min
Mailbag!
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
Mar 19, 2024•42 min
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