Dave Hyatt

Who is Dave Hyatt?

Dave Hyatt is an American Software Engineer employed by Apple Inc., where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit framework. Hyatt was part of the original team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of Safari. He is the Safari and WebKit Architect.

Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla web browser. While at Netscape, he also created Camino and co-created Firefox with Blake Ross. He is credited with the implementations of tabbed browsing for Chimera and Firefox.

Hyatt also created and wrote the first specifications for the XBL and XUL markup languages.

Hyatt studied as an undergraduate at Rice University and graduate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hyatt developed, but no longer maintains, the software for Shadowland Six in his spare time; a forum and discussion server for the Shadowrun community. He also co-wrote published material for Shadowrun as a freelance writer, including the books Renraku Arcology: Shutdown and Brainscan.