Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification,[1][2] and the Pingback specification,[3] and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0.[4] He is known as a proponent of Web standards, and has played a crucial role in the development of specifications such as CSS. Hickson was a co-editor of the CSS 2.1 specification.[5]
Ian Hickson | |
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| Born | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss-British |
| Education | Physics at University of Bath |
| Employer | Unemployed |
| Organization(s) | Netscape, Opera, Google |
| Known for | HTML5, CSS 2.1, Flutter (software) |
Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.[6] He studied physics at the University of Bath in England. Later he was employed at Netscape and Opera Software; he worked for Google in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the specification editor of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).[7] Hickson resigned from Google in late 2023.[8]
References
edit- ^ "HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML", W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008
- ^ "HTML 5 Hits First Public Working Draft", Sean Michael Kerner, internetnews.com, 25 January 2008
- ^ Pingback Specification
- ^ "Web Applications 1.0". whatwg.org. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- ^ Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1, W3C W3C Candidate Recommendation 25 February 2004
- ^ Hickson's biography on the website of the Web Standards Project
- ^ Ian Hickson's resume
- ^ "Reflecting on 18 years at Google". Retrieved 23 November 2023.
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