Anne van Kesteren

Anne van Kesteren
van Kesteren on 2011-08-28
Born	(1986-08-01) 1 August 1986 (age 38)[1] 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

References

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

External links

• Anne’s Blog