Beyond Browser Vendors

Igalia and Open Source's Unique Roles in Web Standards

 

The Web is 30 years old this year...

~500 Member Organizations

Hundreds of W3C Member Orgs

A few browser vendors

Web standards need implementations

Browser vendors each have...

• Departments
• Budgets
• Managers
• People with special skills
• A backlog 

Different priorities, skillsets, budgets

It's only a standard if everyone makes it through

So vendors are hesitant to take things up,

especially to be the first to invest

Things get stuck

Everyone else waits...

But the backlog just gets bigger...

Which leads to even less likelihood that one of these things will move...

This is a feedback loop.

Even small things can linger without a final implementation, costing us all...

Millions of developers

Thousands of organizations with a vested interest in the Web

Hundreds of W3C Member Orgs

A few very browser vendors

Billions of users

All of us.

Imagine if we could fix this problem?

We can!
Open gives us all the ability to have a more equal voice.

2004

From Proprietary to Open

All of the standards implementations are now open

The standards process has become increasingly open too...

2004

2017: CSS Grid
remember that?

Origins back to 1996

Several failed attempts

 

 

How?

Open.

 

The Web Platform is a commons.

We love the commons,

and we can help.

A lot isn't stuck over silly politics...

Many things are stuck for far more practical reasons:
They can't get prioritized and implemented

We can help.

•  V8, JavaScriptCore, SpiderMonkey
• Chromium, Gecko/Servo, Webkit

We are trusted committers everywhere

ResizeObserver

Responsive image preloading

 

MathML in Chromium!

We all move forward together.