Episode 100: Web Standards at the Web Engines Hackfest

Recorded live at TPAC 2026 in Dublin! Eric Meyer and Brian Kardell sit down with Valerie Young, Lola Odelola, and Jeffrey Yasskin to explore where web standards ideals meet reality. From accessibility testing and horizontal review to funding, volunteer labor, developer representation, and the challenge of sustaining the digital commons.. Mentioned Links Web Platform Tests Open UI

Eric and Brian talk about Interop 2027 - what's been submitted, people's thoughts so far, how to participate, and the difficulty of deciding. Mentioned Links Rank Your Interop Votes Ana Rodrigues: My Feature Rankings Sara Soueidan: My top picks for Interop 2027 Tyler Sticka: My Interop 2027 Ranking Paweł Grzybek: My Interop 2027 Picks Declan Childlow: My Interop 2027 Rankings Stuart Robson: ... And That's My Rank! 2027 Edition Eric Meyer: My Interop 2027 Rankings

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Nick Doty from the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Justin Brookman from Consumer Reports about the W3C's Global Privacy Control specification Mentioned Links Global Privacy Control Specification Global Privacy Control web site P3P (Wikipedia) Center for Democracy and Technology Nick’s policy writing Fast Company post on DNT Consumer Reports

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Jeff Lindsay (aka progruim) about the history of, naming and thoughts behind the evangelism of Webhooks. Mentioned Links Jeff's website Wikipedia: Webhook Wikipedia: SuperHappyDevHouse

Eric and Brian talk to Google's Johnny Stenback and Rick Byers about Origin Trials Mentioned Links View and Register Trials Get started with origin trials

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer discuss the results of State of CSS 2026 Mentioned Links State of CSS 2026

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Microsoft's Clint Covington and Peter Wu about the many integrations of Math, the role MathML and some amazing statistics. Mentioned Links Meet Murray Sargent, the quiet force behind accessible math Peter's Talk Eric's W3C Talk on Sponsorship and MathML The Effects of Nuclear Weapons Docs for MathML support in Microsoft 365 MathML in the PDF 2.0 standard

Eric Meyer and Ujjwal Sharma chat with colleagues and Servo team members Rakhi Sharma and Eri Mentioned Links servo.org Tauri collaboration Outreachy RDP Servo using Firefox DevTools Client

Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with W3C interim CEO Dominique Hazael-Massieux about Web Standards, the W3C, the Web Engines Hackfest and the larger web ecosystem Mentioned Links Is this the Web? Three Standards Bodies Walk In to a Bar Web Engines Hackfest

Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Dan Appelquist of Samsung and the W3C AB about how we define the web, and why it matters. Mentioned Links Dan's Blog Post The XSLT Episode Ethical Web Principles W3C RECs