Esta é uma versão traduzida para o português do texto original publicado em inglês.

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Na Igalia, a gente trabalha com o desenvolvimento de navegadores da Internet, tipo Chrome e Safari. Na verdade, atuamos com as tecnologias por trás desses navegadores, que permitem que os sites tenham uma boa aparência e funcionem corretamente, como HTML, CSS e JavaScript—os blocos de construção de todas as aplicações da Internet.

Em tudo o que fazemos, tentamos dar grande ênfase à responsabilidade social. Isso significa que o nosso foco vai além do lucro, priorizando ações que geram um impacto positivo na sociedade. Além disso, a Igalia é construída com base em valores de igualdade e transparência, profundamente enraizados em nossa estrutura organizacional. Estes compromissos com valores e responsabilidade social moldam os princípios fundamentais que orientam o nosso trabalho.

At Igalia, we work on developing Internet browsers such as Chrome and Safari. In fact, we work with the technologies behind these browsers that allow websites to look good and function correctly, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—the building blocks of all Internet applications.

In everything we do, we try to place a strong emphasis on social responsibility. This means that our focus goes beyond profit, prioritizing actions that generate a positive impact on society. Igalia is built on values of equality and transparency, which are deeply embedded in our organizational structure. These commitments to values ​​and social responsibility shape the fundamental principles that guide our work.

Instead of using Chromium for browsing the Web, let’s explore how to use it for building applications.

Chromium is open-source and its codebase is organized in components which can be used for many different purposes. For example, Chromium is used for building browsers other than Chrome like Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, among others. You may also be familiarized with V8, the Chromium JavaScript engine that may be used to power scripting on server-side, like Node.js and Deno.

Last week, we talked about Chrome, Google’s browser.

We discussed open technologies, cooperativism, and Chromium’s governance with a focus on a transparent future. We talked about the development of browser variants, its use on different platforms, and how we will approach Generative AI in Chrome.

This post was inspired by “Short blog post from Madrid’s hotel room” from my colleague Frédéric Wang. You should really check his post instead! To Fred: thanks for the feedback and review here. I’m in for football in the next Summit, alright? :-)

This week, I finally went to A Coruña for the Web Engines Hackfest and internal company meetings. These were my first on-site events since the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of non-super-exciting virtual conferences I was so glad to finally be able to meet with colleagues and other people from the Web.

Prototyping

At the beginning of 2016, myself, Tuomas and João drafted out a skateboard business in Brazil. João, blasé about his electrical engineering endeavours, desperately wanted to practice skydiving and live abroad. He was down to whatever to accomplish his goals, and so he was alright with the much lower endorphin that skateboarding was proving also. That was great, because besides being a great and funny friend, he was also a truly handyman, and we needed that kind of person in our business.