Thanks to Aankhen, Aaron Boodman, Aaron Leventhal, Adam Barth, Adam Roben, Addison Phillips, Adele Peterson, Adrian Sutton, Agustín Fernández, Ajai Tirumali, Alastair Campbell, Alex Nicolaou, 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 Boyle, Ben Godfrey, Ben Meadowcroft, Ben Millard, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis, Bert Bos, Bijan Parsia, Bill Mason, Billy Wong, Bjoern Hoehrmann, Boris Zbarsky, Brad Fults, Brad Neuberg, Brady Eidson, Brendan Eich, Brett Wilson, Brian Campbell, Brian Smith, Bruce Lawson, Bruce Miller, Cameron McCormack, Cao Yipeng, Carlos Perelló Marín, Chao Cai, 윤석찬 (Channy Yun), Charl van Niekerk, Charles Iliya Krempeaux, Charles McCathieNevile, Christian Biesinger, Christian Johansen, Christian Schmidt, Chriswa, Cole Robison, Colin Fine, Collin Jackson, Daniel Barclay, Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney, Daniel Glazman, Daniel Peng, Daniel Spång, Daniel Steinberg, Danny Sullivan, Darin Adler, Darin Fisher, Dave Camp, Dave Singer, Dave Townsend, David Baron, David Bloom, David Carlisle, David Flanagan, David Håsäther, David Hyatt, David Smith, David Woolley, Dean Edridge, Debi Orton, Derek Featherstone, DeWitt Clinton, Dimitri Glazkov, dolphinling, Doron Rosenberg, Doug Kramer, Edward O'Connor, Edward Z. Yang, Eira Monstad, Elliotte Harold, Eric Carlson, Eric Law, Erik Arvidsson, Evan Martin, Evan Prodromou, fantasai, Felix Sasaki, Franck 'Shift' Quélain, Garrett Smith, Geoffrey Garen, Sam Sneddon, George Lund, Håkon Wium Lie, Hans S. Tømmerhalt, Henri Sivonen, Henrik Lied, Henry Mason, Hugh Winkler, Ignacio Javier, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves, J. King, Jacques Distler, James Craig, James Graham, James Justin Harrell, James M Snell, James Perrett, Jan-Klaas Kollhof, Jason White, Jasper Bryant-Greene, Jed Hartman, Jeff Cutsinger, Jeff Schiller, Jeff Walden, Jens Bannmann, Jens Fendler, Jeroen van der Meer, Jim Jewett, Jim Meehan, Joe Clark, John Fallows, Joseph Kesselman, Jjgod Jiang, Joel Spolsky, Johan Herland, John Boyer, John Bussjaeger, John Harding, Johnny Stenback, Jon Gibbins, Jon Perlow, Jonathan Worent, Jorgen Horstink, Josh Levenberg, Joshua Randall, Jukka K. Korpela, Jules Clément-Ripoche, Julian Reschke, Kai Hendry, Kartikaya Gupta, Kornel Lesinski, 黒澤剛志 (KUROSAWA Takeshi), Kristof Zelechovski, Kyle Hofmann, 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, Maik Merten, Malcolm Rowe, Mark Nottingham, Mark Rowe, Mark Schenk, Martijn Wargers, Martin Atkins, Martin Dürst, Martin Honnen, Masataka Yakura, Mathieu Henri, Matthew Gregan, 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 Nordman, 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, Nicholas Shanks, Ojan Vafai, Olaf Hoffmann, Olav Junker Kjær, Oliver Hunt, Patrick H. Lauke, Peter Karlsson, Peter Kasting, Philip Jägenstedt, Philip Taylor, Philip TAYLOR, Rachid Finge, Rajas Moonka, Ralf Stoltze, Ralph Giles, Raphael Champeimont, Rene Saarsoo, Richard Ishida, Rikkert Koppes, Rimantas Liubertas, Robert Blaut, Robert O'Callahan, Robert Sayre, Roman Ivanov, Ryan King, S. Mike Dierken, Sam Kuper, Sam Ruby, Sam Weinig, Scott Hess, Sean Knapp, Shaun Inman, Shiki Okasaka, Silvia Pfeiffer, Simon Pieters, Stefan Haustein, Steffen Meschkat, 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, Tommy Thorsen, Travis Leithead, Tyler Close, Vladimir Vukićević, Wakaba, Wayne Pollock, Wellington Fernando de Macedo, William Swanson, Wolfram Kriesing, Yi-An Huang, Zhenbin Xu, 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, to the #mrt crew, the #mrt.no crew, and the #whatwg crew, and to Pillar and Hedral for their ideas and support.