Neal: the complication with indicating affiliation is that people can move from one company to another or decide to retire from salaried work and become “unaffiliated”. To pick one example, Tantek Çelik worked at Apple for many years (long before Safari), Microsoft for many years (working on IE/Mac), and now is independent but working with the Mozilla Foundation. So would I count him for Firefox? What about all those years with IE/Mac?

Linking people’s sites would be easier and is something I might add—though, again, what if someone has changing contact information over time? What if an old-ish spec lists a different URL than one updated last week? I could use the most recent but if someone just started work for Apple then their name shows an Apple URL/email even if they spent ten years working at Opera. Not that anyone besides Jon Hicks ever leaves Opera.

If I were doing this as some sort of timeline, these sorts of questions would be easier to handle, of course. Though how I could fold all this information into a workable timeline visualization is an interesting question in its own right!