Ian Hickson
| Ian Hickson | |
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| File:Ian Hickson at CSS Working Group Meeting Day Three.jpeg | |
| Born | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss-British |
| Education | Physics at University of Bath |
| Employer | |
| Organization | Netscape, Opera, Google |
| Known for | HTML5, CSS 2.1 |
Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, and the Web Applications 1.0/HTML 5 specification.[1][2] 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.[3]
Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.[4] He studied physics at the University of Bath in England. Later he was employed at Netscape, and Opera Software; he now works for Google in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the specification editor of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group.[5]
References
- ↑ "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, January 25, 2008
- ↑ 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
External links
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