Håkon Wium Lie (born 1965 in Halden, Norway) is a web pioneer, a standards activist, and as of 2009, Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software.
He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. As an employee at W3C, he developed CSS into a W3C Recommendation with Bert Bos. CSS is one of the fundamental web standards, with profound impact on typograp...
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Håkon Wium Lie (born 1965 in Halden, Norway) is a web pioneer, a standards activist, and as of 2009, Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software.
He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. As an employee at W3C, he developed CSS into a W3C Recommendation with Bert Bos. CSS is one of the fundamental web standards, with profound impact on typography, aesthetics, and accessibility on the web.
Along with his work on the CSS specifications, Wium Lie has been an activist for standards in general. Often, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been his target due to its poor support for standards. Also, he has argued against the use of formatting objects on the web. Wium Lie proposed the Acid2 test which was later developed and published by the Web Standards Project.
In 2006, Wium Lie started campaigning for browsers to support downloadable web fonts using common font formats. As of 2009, all...
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