Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the 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.

[5] Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.

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).

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