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
Mosaic
Netscape
IE
Opera
KHTML
Webkit
Chromium
Mozilla 1
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!
