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

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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 HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It is the fifth and final major HTML version that is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation. The current specification is known as the HTML L ...

specification,"HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML"

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Working Draft 22 January 2008"HTML 5 Hits First Public Working Draft"
Sean Michael Kerner, internetnews.com, 25 January 2008 and the

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specification,Pingback Specification
/ref> and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0. He is known as a proponent of

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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

W3C Candidate Recommendation 25 February 2004 Hickson was born in

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , 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 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 ...

; he now works for

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in the

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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
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References

External links

Ian Hickson's website

Ian Hickson's blog
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