Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the
Acid2
Acid2 is a webpage that test web browsers' functionality in displaying aspects of HTML markup, CSS 2.1 styling, PNG images, and data URIs. The test page was released on 13 April 2005 by the Web Standards Project. The Acid2 test page will be ...
and
Acid3
The Acid3 test is a web test page from the Web Standards Project that checks a web browser's compliance with elements of various web standards, particularly the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.
If the test is successful, the results ...
tests, 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, l ...
HTML 5
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specification,
["HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML"](_blank)
W3C
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Working Draft 22 January 2008["HTML 5 Hits First Public Working Draft"](_blank)
Sean Michael Kerner, internetnews.com, 25 January 2008 and the
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specification,
[Pingback Specification](_blank)
/ref> and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0. He is known as a proponent of Web standards
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, 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.[Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1](_blank)
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 ...
W3C Candidate Recommendation 25 February 2004
Hickson was born in Geneva
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, website = https://www.geneve.ch/
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...
, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.Hickson's biography
on the website of the Web Standards Project He studied physics at the
University of Bath
(Virgil, Georgics II)
, mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind
, established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
in England. Later he was employed at
Netscape and
Opera Software
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; he now works for
Google
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in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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, and is the specification editor of the
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
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 ...
(WHATWG).
[Ian Hickson's resume](_blank)
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References
External links
Ian Hickson's website
Ian Hickson's blog
World Wide Web Consortium
Living people
Acid tests
Scientists from Geneva
English expatriates in Switzerland
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Bath
British computer programmers
Swiss computer programmers
Swiss expatriates in England
Netscape people
Google people
Opera Software employees
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