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Håkon Wium Lie

Norwegian software engineer

  • Fame48.4
  • Momentum0.0
  • Developers rank#172
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Born 1965 · age 61Norway
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  • Age
    61
    Born 1965
  • Awards
    1
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Summary
Updated 2026-06-26

Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the chairman of YesLogic, developers of Prince CSS-based PDF rendering software. He is best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. He was the chief technology officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016.

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Profile type
Developer
Category
Developers
Country
Norway
Category rank
#172
Last updated
2026-06-26
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  • Wikiquote
    website · en.wikiquote.org
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    wikipedia · ar.wikipedia.org
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    wikipedia · arz.wikipedia.org
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Born
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