Ian Hickson

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| known_for = HTML5, CSS 2.1, Flutter (software)

| education = Physics at University of Bath

| employer = Unemployed

| organization = Netscape, Opera, Google

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Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification,[http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/ "HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML"], W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008[http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3724041/ "HTML 5 Hits First Public Working Draft"], Sean Michael Kerner, internetnews.com, 25 January 2008 and the Pingback specification,[http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback Pingback Specification] and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0.{{cite web|title=Web Applications 1.0|url=https://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/2005-09-01/|website=whatwg.org|accessdate=22 April 2017}} 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.[http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1], W3C W3C Candidate Recommendation 25 February 2004

Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.[http://www.webstandards.org/about/members/hixie/ Hickson's biography] on the website of the Web Standards Project 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).[http://ian.hixie.ch/career/resume.html Ian Hickson's resume] Hickson resigned from Google in late 2023.{{cite web |title=Reflecting on 18 years at Google |url=https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1 |access-date=23 November 2023}}