Wishes, Signals, and the Shape of Standards

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with colleague Dhruv Mark Collins to discuss Igalia's work with Valve on the Steam devices! Mentioned Links Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices Steam Powered Open Source (Igalia Chats May 2023)

Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell chat with Jay Hoffmann and Jeremy Keith about Shadow DOM's backstory and long origins Mentioned Links Component Model Use Cases Shadow tree encapsulation theory The History of the Web XBL2: First Thoughts and Use Cases 'Web Components' email

Brian and Eric chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility. Mentioned Links A threat model for accessibility on the web Accessibility is a Hydra

Mat 'Wilto' Marquis joins Igalia Chats to get weird and talk about JavaScript, boxing, charity and platform permanence. Mentioned Links JavaScript for Everyone course Mat's Website Mat on Mastodon Mat on Bluesky XKCD Workflow XKCD The Meetup

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Sacha Greif about the various popular 'State of' surveys he organizes Mentioned Links State of CSS 2025 Results State of JS 2025 State of HTML 2025 Devographics (& more surveys)

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with the W3C's Dominique Hazaël-Massieux about ways that we try to involve developers and developer input into standards Mentioned Links Eric's post about XSLT drama Recent episode on XSLT drama Interop 2025 Dashboard Interop Project / Call for Proposals W3C Developers Web Platform DX Features Project

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with their colleague Andy Wingo about Web Assembly Mentioned Links WebAssembly: Yes, but for What? Wasm-Core Standard When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Liam Quin about a recent issue in WHATWG regarding the removal of XSLT Mentioned Links house.gov Blink Principles of Web Compatibility Microsoft Patent Issue NIST XSL Tool XSLT in Rust SaxonJS

Brian and Eric talk to their TC39 representative colleagues Nic and Ujjwal about TC39 in general, and the most recent meeting. Mentioned Links Agenda with proposal links Mozilla amount element explainer

Brian and Eric sit down to chat with W3C's new CEO Seth Dobbs about the W3C and standards Mentioned Links w3.org Get Involved Vision Announcement W3C's 2025-2028 Strategic Objectives Initiatives W3C Team's AI & the Web Impact Anaylysis