Xan López

Vigo (Spain), 1982

Hacker at Igalia since February 2009

Latest Updates

Xan López 17/01/2012

Epiphany marches on

Previously in this space we saw how the bright future of Epiphany looked like, and vague promises about incremental steps towards it were done. A month later, Epiphany 3.3.4 is out there, so let’s see how well we’ve done. There’s a lot...

Xan López 04/12/2011

A new design for Epiphany: Web

As you might have heard in many other places a bunch of GNOME and WebKit hackers have met in rainy Coruña for the 3rd WebKitGTK+ hackfest. Many things have been discussed, but today I’m going to give a sneak preview of the new design for Epiphany...

Xan López 19/10/2011

The next million apps

A few months ago the Apple Store accumulated more than 500,000 approved applications available for download. This is a very remarkable fact for a relatively new platform using somewhat obscure technologies. It is, also, a very profitable situation for...

Xan López 07/09/2011

Joanmarie Diggs joins Igalia

As announced by the fearless accessibility leader himself Joanmarie Diggs will be joining Igalia. I just want to direct your attention to one tiny detail. From this: To this: in less than 4 hours. We are just that cool. Welcome Joanie!

Xan López 31/08/2011

Web application mode in GNOME 3.2

If you attended either of my talks at the Desktop Summit or COSCUP (or both! Although I think only the British Citizen Bastien Nocera might have done so, assuming he was sober enough to go to the former) you might remember my somewhat failed attempts at...