Anne van Kesteren is an open web standards author and

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

contributor. He has written and edits several web standards specifications including ''Fullscreen API'', ''XMLHttpRequest'', and ''URL''. Formerly worked on standards issues as a software engineer at

Opera Software Opera is a Norwegian multinational technology company and subsidiary of Kunlun that specializes in web browser development, fintech, as well as services such as Opera News and YoYo Games. The company's total user base, including users of its d ...

, he started working at

Mozilla Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, wi ...

on 2013-02-04. He was Mozilla’s representative on the

WHATWG The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies. The WHATWG was founded by individuals from Apple Inc., the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software, lea ...

Steering Group. He was an elected participant in the

W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working to ...

Technical Architecture Group The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is a special working group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created in 2001 to: * to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these prin ...

(TAG) from 2013 to 2014.

Writing

Van Kesteren is the author and editor of several web standards: * DOM Standard - defines a platform-neutral model for events and node trees. * Encoding (web standard) * Fetch (standard) - defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them: fetching. * Fullscreen (standard) - defines an API for elements to display themselves fullscreen. *

HTML Living Standard The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript ...

(current co-editor) - foundational format of

the Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...

* Notifications (standard) - defines an API to display notifications to the end user, typically outside the top-level browsing context's viewport. * Storage (web standard) - defines an API for persistent storage and quota estimates, as well as the platform storage architecture. * URL (standard) - defines URLs, domains, IP addresses, the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format, and their API. *

XMLHttpRequest XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is an API in the form of an object whose methods transfer data between a web browser and a web server. The object is provided by the browser's JavaScript environment. Particularly, retrieval of data from XHR for the purpose o ...

- defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server.

Other work

Anne van Kesteren has contributed to open source works including:
WebVTT parser and validator

References

External links

Anne’s Blog
Living people 1986 births Mozilla people {{internet-bio-stub