Thanks to Aankhen, Aaron Boodman, Aaron Leventhal, Adam Barth, Adam Roben, Addison Phillips, Adele Peterson, Adrian Sutton, Agustín Fernández, Alastair Campbell, Alexey Feldgendler, Anders Carlsson, Andrew Gove, Andrew Sidwell, Anne van Kesteren, Anthony Hickson, Anthony Ricaud, Antti Koivisto, Arphen Lin, Asbjørn Ulsberg, Ashley Sheridan, Aurelien Levy, Ben Godfrey, Ben Meadowcroft, Ben Millard, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis, Bert Bos, Billy Wong, Bjoern Hoehrmann, Boris Zbarsky, Brad Fults, Brad Neuberg, Brady Eidson, Brendan Eich, Brett Wilson, Brian Campbell, Brian Smith, Bruce Miller, Cameron McCormack, Carlos Perelló Marín, Chao Cai, 윤석찬 (Channy Yun), Charl van Niekerk, Charles Iliya Krempeaux, Charles McCathieNevile, Christian Biesinger, Christian Johansen, Chriswa, Cole Robison, Collin Jackson, Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney, Daniel Glazman, Daniel Peng, Daniel Spång, Danny Sullivan, Darin Adler, Darin Fisher, Dave Camp, Dave Singer, Dave Townsend, David Baron, David Bloom, David Carlisle, David Flanagan, David Håsäther, David Hyatt, Dean Edridge, Debi Orton, Derek Featherstone, DeWitt Clinton, Dimitri Glazkov, dolphinling, Doron Rosenberg, Doug Kramer, Eira Monstad, Elliotte Harold, Erik Arvidsson, Evan Martin, Evan Prodromou, fantasai, Franck 'Shift' Quélain, Garrett Smith, Geoffrey Garen, Sam Sneddon, Håkon Wium Lie, Henri Sivonen, Henrik Lied, Henry Mason, Hugh Winkler, Ignacio Javier, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves, J. King, Jacques Distler, James Graham, James Justin Harrell, James M Snell, James Perrett, Jan-Klaas Kollhof, Jason White, Jasper Bryant-Greene, Jeff Cutsinger, Jeff Walden, Jens Bannmann, Jens Fendler, Jeroen van der Meer, Jim Jewett, Jim Meehan, Joe Clark, Jjgod Jiang, Joel Spolsky, Johan Herland, John Boyer, John Bussjaeger, John Harding, Johnny Stenback, Jon Perlow, Jonathan Worent, Jorgen Horstink, Josh Levenberg, Joshua Randall, Jukka K. Korpela, Julian Reschke, Kai Hendry, Kornel Lesinski, 黒澤剛志 (KUROSAWA Takeshi), Kristof Zelechovski, Lachlan Hunt, Larry Page, Lars Gunther, Laura L. Carlson, Laura Wisewell, Laurens Holst, Lee Kowalkowski, Leif Halvard Silli, Lenny Domnitser, Léonard Bouchet, Leons Petrazickis, Logan, Loune, Maciej Stachowiak, Magnus Kristiansen, Malcolm Rowe, Mark Nottingham, Mark Rowe, Mark Schenk, Martijn Wargers, Martin Atkins, Martin Dürst, Martin Honnen, Masataka Yakura, Mathieu Henri, Matthew Mastracci, Matthew Raymond, Matthew Thomas, Mattias Waldau, Max Romantschuk, Michael 'Ratt' Iannarelli, Michael A. Nachbaur, Michael A. Puls II, Michael Carter, Michael Gratton, Michael Powers, Michael(tm) Smith, Michel Fortin, Michiel van der Blonk, Mihai Şucan, Mike Brown, Mike Dierken, Mike Dixon, Mike Schinkel, Mike Shaver, Mikko Rantalainen, Neil Deakin, Neil Soiffer, Olaf Hoffmann, Olav Junker Kjær, Oliver Hunt, Peter Karlsson, Peter Kasting, Philip Taylor, Philip TAYLOR, Rachid Finge, Rajas Moonka, Ralf Stoltze, Ralph Giles, Raphael Champeimont, Rene Saarsoo, Richard Ishida, Rimantas Liubertas, Robert Blaut, Robert O'Callahan, Robert Sayre, Roman Ivanov, S. Mike Dierken, Sam Ruby, Sam Weinig, Scott Hess, Sean Knapp, Shaun Inman, Silvia Pfeiffer, Simon Pieters, Stefan Haustein, Stephen Ma, Steve Faulkner, Steve Runyon, Steven Garrity, Stewart Brodie, Stuart Parmenter, Sunava Dutta, Tantek Çelik, Terrence Wood, Thomas Broyer, Thomas O'Connor, Tim Altman, Tim Johansson, Tyler Close, Vladimir Vukićević, Wakaba, Wayne Pollock, William Swanson, Yi-An Huang, and Øistein E. Andersen, for their useful and substantial comments.
Thanks also to everyone who has ever posted about HTML5 to their blogs, public mailing lists, or forums, including the W3C public-html list and the various WHATWG lists.
Special thanks to Richard Williamson for creating the first
implementation of canvas in Safari,
from which the canvas feature was designed.
Special thanks also to the Microsoft employees who first implemented the
event-based drag-and-drop mechanism, contenteditable, and other features
first widely deployed by the Windows Internet Explorer browser.
Special thanks and $10,000 to David Hyatt who came up with a broken implementation of the adoption agency algorithm that the editor had to reverse engineer and fix before using it in the parsing section.
Thanks to the many sources that provided inspiration for the examples used in the specification.
Thanks also to the Microsoft blogging community for some ideas, to the attendees of the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents for inspiration, and to the #mrt crew, the #mrt.no crew, the #whatwg crew, and the cabal for their ideas and support.