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Ian Hickson

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  • Audience1.9K
  • Fame55.5
  • Momentum0.0
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1.9K github followers
  • Audience1.9K
  • Fame55.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Switzerland rank#240
  • Developers rank#96
  • Wikipedia358
Born 1953 · age 73Switzerland
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  • Biggest on GitHub
    1.9K
    @Hixie
  • Wikipedia
    8 languages
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  • Rank in Switzerland
    #240
    Developers
  • Age
    73
    Born 1953
Summary
Updated 2026-06-25

Ian "Hixie" Hickson is a British-American software engineer, author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification, and the Pingback specification, and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0. 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.

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Fame
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55.5
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Score components
Historical7.0
Source confidence55.0
Completeness80.0
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Country rank
#240
Category rank
#96
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