More and more applications are being realized using web technologies — from Electron on your desktop to Progressive Web Apps (PWA) on your mobile or as a web service across all your devices. But go back ten years, and it was a rocky road. So called browser wars and competition to release hot new browser features disrupted the evolution. Open Standards and collaboration of browser vendors were helping to spread web technologies. 

In my session I’ll explain why open standards matter. We’ll take a look at the history. You’ll learn which requirements a modern browser engine should fulfill. And I’ll share some ideas for how you could help to develop the open web further.