Anne van Kesteren explained

Anne van Kesteren
Birth Date:	1 August 1986^[1]
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^{[2] [3]} as a software engineer at Opera Software,^{[4] [5] [6]} he started working at Mozilla on 2013-02-04.^[7] He was Mozilla’s representative on the WHATWG Steering Group.^[8] He was an elected participant in the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) from 2013 to 2014.^[9]

Writing

Van Kesteren is the author and editor of several web standards:

• DOM Standard - defines a platform-neutral model for events and node trees.^[10]
• Encoding (web standard)^[11]
• Fetch (standard) - defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them: fetching.^[12]
• Fullscreen (standard) - defines an API for elements to display themselves fullscreen.^[13]
• HTML Living Standard (current co-editor) - foundational format of the Web^[14]
• Notifications (standard) - defines an API to display notifications to the end user, typically outside the top-level browsing context's viewport.^[15]
• Storage (web standard) - defines an API for persistent storage and quota estimates, as well as the platform storage architecture.^[16]
• URL (standard) - defines URLs, domains, IP addresses, the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format, and their API.^{[17] [18]}
• XMLHttpRequest - defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server.^[19]

Other work

Anne van Kesteren has contributed to open source works including:

• WebVTT parser and validator

External links

• Anne’s Blog

Notes and References

1. Web site: About Anne van Kesteren. https://web.archive.org/web/20180225210254/https://annevankesteren.nl/about. 2018-02-25.
2. Web site: Opera embraces WebKit in browser brain transplant . 2016-05-30.
3. Web site: HTML gurus modernize Acid3 browser test . 2016-05-30.
4. Web site: The Web Is Reborn. 2016-05-30.
5. Web site: Google goes on the Blink in WebKit fork FURORE. The Register. 2016-05-30.
6. Web site: HTML 5 : scission autour du standard . 2012-07-30 . 2020-08-22 .
7. Web site: One year at Mozilla . 2014-02-04 . 2016-05-30 .
8. Web site: The WHATWG Steering Group . . 2020-08-21 . 2020-08-22 .
9. Web site: TAG members over time. 2022-01-21. tag.w3.org. en.
10. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. DOM Standard . 2016-05-30 .
11. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. Encoding Standard . 2016-05-30 .
12. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. Fetch Standard . 2016-05-30 .
13. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. Fullscreen API Standard . 2016-05-30 .
14. Web site: HTML Living Standard . 2020-08-22 .
15. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. Notifications API Standard . 2016-05-30 .
16. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. Storage Standard . 2016-05-30 .
17. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. URL Standard . 2016-05-30 .
18. Web site: Stephen Shankland . Hate Chrome hiding Web addresses? It may be the future . 2016-05-30 .
19. Web site: Anne van Kesteren. XMLHttpRequest Standard . 2016-05-30 .