Andy Wingo: arrow functions coming to chrome 45!
It's been a long time coming, but I just flipped the bit in V8 that will ship arrow functions in Chrome 45! Woo hoo!You probably know, but arrow functions are a new way to write functions in...
View ArticleJavier Fernández: Performance analysis of Grid Layout
Now that we have a quite complete implementation of CSS Grid Layout specification it’s time to take care of performance analysis and optimizations. In this essay, which is the first of a series of...
View ArticleManuel Rego: CSS Grid Layout is just around the corner (CSSConf US 2015)
Coming back to real life after a wonderful week in New York City is not that easy, but here we’re on the other side of the pond writing about CSS Grid Layout again.First kudos to Bocoup for the CSSConf...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: developing v8 with guix
a guided descent into hellIt all started off so simply. My primary development machine is a desktop computer that I never turn off. I suspend it when I leave work, and then resume it when I come back....
View ArticleManuel Rego: Grid Layout Coast to Coast
So here we’re again, this time to announce that I’ll be presenting my talk “CSS Grid Layout from the inside out” at HTML5DevConf Autumn 2015 (19-20 October). I’m really excited about this new...
View ArticleManuel Rego: Layout Topics on the Web Engines Hackfest 2015
As usual Igalia hosted the Web Engines Hackfest 2015 in A Coruña two weeks ago. This is a special event where the main focus is hacking on the different engines of the open web platform. The developers...
View ArticleManuel Rego: Deep Dive into Grid Layout Placement
During the last months as part of my work in Igalia I’ve been focused on finishing the new/missing bits of the CSS Grid Layout Blink’s implementation related to items placement. In summary the task was...
View ArticleClaudio Saavedra: Thu 2016/Feb/04
We've opened a few positions for developers in the fields of multimedia, networking, and compilers. I could say a lot about why working in Igalia is way different to working on your average...
View ArticleClaudio Saavedra: Mon 2016/Feb/08
About a year ago, Igalia was approached by the people working on printing-related technologies in HP to see whether we could give them a hand in their ongoing effort to improve the printing experience...
View ArticleManuel Rego: Subgrids thinking out loud
Subgrids has become a hot topic on the past weeks, mostly due to an article by Eric Meyer called “Subgrids Considered Essential”, that shows some examples where subgrids can be really useful. Which is...
View ArticleManuel Rego: CSS Grid Layout from the inside out (HTML5DevConf 2015)
As I announced in a previous blog post I was attending HTML5DevConf past October, where I gave a talk about CSS Grid Layout. The video of my talk is now online, so I thought it would be a good moment...
View ArticleManuel Rego: Igalia Coding Experience on Web Engines
In Igalia we’re looking for people to join the Igalia Coding Experience program. Basically we’re opening positions for internships in different fields related to some of our teams like multimedia,...
View ArticleFrédéric Wang: OpenType MATH in HarfBuzz
TL;DR:•Work is in progress to add OpenType MATH support in HarfBuzz and will be instrumental for many math rendering engines relying on that library, including browsers.•For stretchy operators, an...
View ArticleFrédéric Wang: OpenType MATH in HarfBuzz
TL;DR:•Work is in progress to add OpenType MATH support in HarfBuzz and will be instrumental for many math rendering engines relying on that library, including browsers.•For stretchy operators, an...
View ArticleSergio Villar: Automatizing the Grid
My Igalia colleagues and me have extensively reviewed how to create grids and how to position items inside the grid using different CSS properties. So far everything was more or less static. We declare...
View ArticleAntonio Gomes: [Chromium] content_shell running on Wayland desktop (Weston...
During my first weeks at Igalia, I got an interesting and promising task of Understand the status of Wayland support in Chromium upstream.At first I could see clear signs that Wayland is being actively...
View ArticleIgalia Compilers Team: Awaiting the future of JavaScript in V8
On the evening of Monday, May 16th, 2016, we have made history. We’ve landed the initial implementation of “Async Functions” in V8, the JavaScript runtime in use by the Google Chrome and Node.js. We do...
View ArticleManuel Rego: CSS Grid Layout and positioned items
As part of the work done by Igalia in the CSS Grid Layout implementation on Chromium/Blink and Safari/WebKit, we’ve been implementing the support for positioned items. Yeah, absolute positioning inside...
View ArticleManuel Rego: My BlinkOn 6 Summary: Grid Layout, Houdini & MathML
Igalia could not miss the chance to participate in a new European edition of BlinkOn. So past week my colleague Dape and I were attending BlinkOn 6 in Munich. In this post I’d do a personal summary...
View ArticleManuel Rego: TPAC, Web Engines Hackfest & Igalia 15th anniversary on the horizon
W3C’s TPACNext week I’ll be in Lisbon attending TPAC. This is the annual conference organized by the W3C where all the different groups meet face to face during one week. It seems a huge event where...
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