Anne van Kesteren
{{Short description|Dutch open source contributor}}
{{notability|bio|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anne van Kesteren
| image = Anne van Kesteren.jpg
| caption = van Kesteren on 2011-08-28
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|8|1|df=y}}{{Cite web|url=https://annevankesteren.nl/about|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225210254/https://annevankesteren.nl/about|archive-date=2018-02-25|title=About Anne van Kesteren}}
| birth_place = The Netherlands
| occupation = web standards
| website = https://annevankesteren.nl/
}}
Anne van Kesteren is an open web standards author and open source contributor. He has written and edits several web standards specifications including Fullscreen API, XMLHttpRequest, and URL. Formerly worked on standards issues{{cite web |url=http://www.cnet.com/news/opera-embraces-webkit-in-browser-brain-transplant/ |title=Opera embraces WebKit in browser brain transplant |accessdate=2016-05-30}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cnet.com/news/html-gurus-modernize-acid3-browser-test/ |title=HTML gurus modernize Acid3 browser test |accessdate=2016-05-30}} as a software engineer at Opera Software,{{cite web
|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/421418/the-web-is-reborn/
|title=The Web Is Reborn
|accessdate=2016-05-30
|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/04/google_webkit_fork/
|title=Google goes on the Blink in WebKit fork FURORE
|website=The Register
|accessdate=2016-05-30
|url=https://www.lemagit.fr/actualites/2240190603/HTML-5-scission-autour-du-standard
|title=HTML 5 : scission autour du standard
|date=2012-07-30
|accessdate=2020-08-22
}} he started working at Mozilla on 2013-02-04.{{cite web|url=https://annevankesteren.nl/2014/02/mozilla-1 |title=One year at Mozilla |date=2014-02-04 |accessdate=2016-05-30 }} He was Mozilla’s representative on the WHATWG Steering Group.{{cite web|url=https://github.com/whatwg/sg#steering-group-representatives |title=The WHATWG Steering Group |website=GitHub |date=2020-08-21 |accessdate=2020-08-22 }} He was an elected participant in the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) from 2013 to 2014.{{Cite web|title=TAG members over time|url=https://tag.w3.org/history/|access-date=2022-01-21|website=tag.w3.org|language=en}}
Writing
Van Kesteren is the author and editor of several web standards:
- DOM Standard - defines a platform-neutral model for events and node trees.{{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=DOM Standard |url=https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
- Encoding (web standard){{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=Encoding Standard |url=https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
- Fetch (standard) - defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them: fetching.{{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=Fetch Standard |url=https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
- Fullscreen (standard) - defines an API for elements to display themselves fullscreen.{{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=Fullscreen API Standard |url=https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
- HTML Living Standard (current co-editor) - foundational format of the Web{{cite web |title= HTML Living Standard |url=https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/acknowledgements.html#acknowledgments |accessdate=2020-08-22 }}
- Notifications (standard) - defines an API to display notifications to the end user, typically outside the top-level browsing context's viewport.{{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=Notifications API Standard |url=https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
- Storage (web standard) - defines an API for persistent storage and quota estimates, as well as the platform storage architecture.{{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=Storage Standard |url=https://storage.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
- URL (standard) - defines URLs, domains, IP addresses, the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format, and their API.{{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=URL Standard |url=https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}{{cite web |author=Stephen Shankland |title=Hate Chrome hiding Web addresses? It may be the future |url=http://www.cnet.com/news/google-test-hides-web-addresses-in-chrome/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
- XMLHttpRequest - defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server.{{cite web |author=Anne van Kesteren|title=XMLHttpRequest Standard |url=https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ |accessdate=2016-05-30 }}
Other work
Anne van Kesteren has contributed to open source works including:
- [https://quuz.org/webvtt/ WebVTT parser and validator]
References
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External links
- [https://annevankesteren.nl/ Anne’s Blog]
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