Name: Dave Raggett

Born: June 8, 1955

  • Computer specialist who has played a major role in implementing the World Wide Web since 1992.
  • Developed many of the key web protocols, including HTTP, HTML, XHTML, MathML, XForms, and VoiceXML.
  • Wrote HTML Tidy.
  • W3C Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium since 1995.
  • Developed a web browser called Arena.

Significant publications

  • XHTML Example by Example (2001).
  • Beginning XHTML (2000).
  • Raggett on HTML 4 (1997).

Honors and awards

  • Talking Hands Award (2004).

Websites

  • Dave Raggett personal website