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Håkon Wium Lie

Norwegian software engineer

  • Fame48.4
  • Momentum0.0
  • Developers rank#209
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  • Fame48.4
  • Momentum0.0
  • Developers rank#209
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Born 1965 · age 61Norway
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  • Age
    61
    Born 1965
  • Awards
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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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