Dave Hyatt is an American

United States

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 software developer

Software developer

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 currently employed by Apple Inc. (since July 15, 2002), where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari

Safari (web browser)

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the...

 web browser

Web browser

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 and WebKit

WebKit

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

 framework

Software framework

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. Hyatt was part of the original team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of Safari. He is currently the Safari and WebKit Architect.

Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla

Mozilla

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 web browser. While at Netscape, he also created Camino

Camino

Camino is a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X operating system...

 (then known as Chimera) and co-created Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

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 (originally called Phoenix) with Blake Ross

Blake Ross

Blake Aaron Ross is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a contractor at the Mozilla Foundation...

. He is credited with the implementations of tabbed browsing for Chimera and Firefox (the initial implementation for Netscape/Mozilla browsers, on which Hyatt based his work was created by HJ van Rantwijk, as part of his MultiZilla project at multizilla.mozdev.org).

Hyatt also created and wrote the first specifications for the XBL

XBL

XBL is an XML-based markup language used to declare the behavior and look of XUL-widgets and XML elements.XBL was developed by the Mozilla project for use in the Mozilla Application Suite; the language is not currently described by any formal standard and is thus proprietary to Mozilla, with the...

 and XUL

XUL

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 markup languages.

Hyatt studied as an undergraduate at Rice University

Rice University

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 and graduate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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.

Hyatt developed, but no longer maintains, the software for Shadowland Six in his spare time; a forum and discussion server for the Shadowrun

Shadowrun

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 community. He also co-wrote published material for Shadowrun as a freelance writer, including the books Renraku Arcology: Shutdown and Brainscan.

He is also an active member of the W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

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's CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...

 Working Group

Working Group

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. He was an editor of the HTML5 draft specification up through March 2010, at which time he resigned to concentrate on other endeavors.

External links

• Surfin' Safari – a weblog dedicated to discussing WebKit development, by various members of the WebKit team
• Dave Hyatt's Weblog – a personal weblog
• Surfin' Safari – previous location of Safari development weblog when it was blogged by Hyatt only
• Shadowland Six – a role playing site that Hyatt used to maintain