| Ian Hickson | |
| Birth Place: | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Nationality: | Swiss-British |
| Known For: | HTML5, CSS 2.1, Flutter (software) |
| Education: | Physics at University of Bath |
| Employer: | Unemployed |
| Organization: | Netscape, Opera, Google |
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. Hickson was a co-editor of the CSS 2.1 specification.[5]
Hickson was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lived there for ten years.[6] 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).[7] Hickson resigned from Google in late 2023.[8]