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Håkon Wium Lie
Proposing Cascading Style Sheets, the language that controls how web pages look.
CSS proposal · CSS1
- Born
- 26 July 1965
- Birthplace
- Halden, Norway
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Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer who developed CSS with Bert Bos and other collaborators. He also worked to advance interoperable web standards at Opera.
Early life
Norwegian beginnings
Studied at Østfold College before continuing in the United States.
MIT
Earned a master’s degree in visual studies at the Media Lab.
Career
- 1994
CERN
Proposed cascading style sheets while working on the early web.
- 1995–1998
W3C
Helped develop CSS specifications with Bert Bos.
- 1999–2016
Opera
Worked as chief technology officer of the browser company.
- 2006
Doctorate
Defended a thesis explaining CSS’s origins and design.
Contributions
CSS proposal
Outlined a way to style web documents.
CSS1
Co-edited the first W3C CSS recommendation.
CSS2
Helped extend the styling standard.
Beyond technology
Making things
Maintains interests in woodworking and organic farming.
Music and family
Has written about painting with his children and enjoying organ music.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biography and contributions ↗Photo: Kmosman. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
