Dave Hyatt
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Dave Hyatt | |
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| Born | 28 June 1972 |
| Occupation | Software Developer |
| Known for | Development on Mozilla Firefox |
David Hyatt (born 28 June 1972) is an American
specifications.Computing career
Before Apple, Hyatt worked at
tabbed browsing
for Chimera and Firefox.
Joining Apple Inc. on 15 July 2002, Hyatt was part of the original development team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of the Safari web browser, and co-developed its underlying WebKit framework.
Hyatt was also one of the lead
HTML 5 specifications, being co-editor, with Ian Hickson, of the first public working draft, published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in January 2008.[1] He resigned from the HTML 5 project in March 2010 to concentrate on other work.[2] Hyatt also created and wrote the first specifications for the XBL and XUL markup languages, and has remained a member of W3C's CSS Working Group
.
Gaming career
As a freelance writer, he also co-authored published material for gaming community.
Personal life
Hyatt studied as an undergraduate at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
.
References
- ^ "HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML". W3.org. World Wide Web Consortium. 22 January 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ Stachowiak, Maciej (3 April 2010). "Dave Hyatt has resigned as editor". W3C HTML Working Group (Mailing list). Retrieved 13 April 2010.
External links
- Surfin' Safari – a blog dedicated to discussing WebKit development, by various members of the WebKit team
- Safari is released to the world – Story behind Safari's development