David Hyatt (born 28 June 1972) is an American

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and a ''

Shadowrun ''Shadowrun'' is a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future in which cybernetics, magic in fiction, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy and crime fiction, crime, with ...

'' game expansion author. Employed by

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starting in 2002, he was part of the Safari

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and

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framework development team. He also helped develop the

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, XBL, and

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specifications.

Computing career

Before Apple, Hyatt worked at

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from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the

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web browser. While at Netscape, he also created Camino (then known as Chimera) and co-created

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(originally called Phoenix) with

Blake Ross Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software engineer who is best known for his work as the co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser with Dave Hyatt. In 2005, he was nominated for ''Wired'' magazine's top Rave Award, Re ...

. He is credited with the implementations of

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for Chimera and Firefox. Joining

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on 15 July 2002, Hyatt was part of the original development team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of the Safari web browser, and co-developed its underlying

framework. Hyatt was also one of the lead

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developers of the

specifications, being co-editor, with Ian Hickson, of the first public working draft, published by the

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(W3C) in January 2008. He resigned from the HTML 5 project in March 2010 to concentrate on other work. Hyatt also created and wrote the first specifications for the XBL and

markup languages, and has remained a member of W3C's CSS Working Group.

Gaming career

As a freelance writer, he also co-authored published material for ''

'' role-playing game, including the

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s ''Renraku Arcology: Shutdown'' (with Brian Schoner) and ''Brainscan'' (chapters "The Return of the Father" and "Runners Ex Machina", with Robert Boyle; volume editor, Brian Schoner). In his spare time, Hyatt developed, but no longer maintains, the software for ''Shadowland Six'' a forum for the ''Shadowrun'' gaming community.

Personal life

Hyatt studied as an undergraduate at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universities ...

and graduate at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

References

External links

Surfin' Safari
– a blog dedicated to discussing WebKit development, by various members of the WebKit team
Safari is released to the world
– Story behind Safari's development {{DEFAULTSORT:Hyatt, Dave Apple Inc. employees American bloggers American computer programmers Living people Mozilla developers Rice University alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni World Wide Web Consortium 1972 births