Nationality Swiss-British Education University of Bath Name Ian Hickson | Known for HTML5, CSS 2.1 Employer Google | |
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Organization Netscape, Opera Software, Google Similar People Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt | ||
Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, HTML 5 specification, and the Pingback specification, and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0. 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.
Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years. He studied physics at the University of Bath in England. Later he was employed at Netscape, and Opera Software; he now works for Google in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the specification editor of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group.
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