Ian Hickson

Ian Hickson
Born
Geneva, Switzerland
CitizenshipAmerican
Education(BSc) University of Bath
EmployerUnemployed
Organization(s)Netscape, Opera, Google
Known forHTML5, CSS 2.1, Flutter (software)

Ian "Hixie" Hickson is a British-American software engineer, author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification,[1][2] and the Pingback specification,[3] and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0.[4] 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.[5]

Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.[6] He studied physics at the University of Bath in England. Later he was employed at Netscape and Opera Software; he worked for Google in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the specification editor of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).[7] Hickson resigned from Google in late 2023.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML", W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008
  2. ↑ "HTML 5 Hits First Public Working Draft", Sean Michael Kerner, internetnews.com, 25 January 2008
  3. ↑ Pingback Specification
  4. ↑ "Web Applications 1.0". whatwg.org. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1, W3C W3C Candidate Recommendation 25 February 2004
  6. ↑ Hickson's biography on the website of the Web Standards Project
  7. ↑ Ian Hickson's resume
  8. ↑ "Reflecting on 18 years at Google". Retrieved 23 November 2023.


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