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Håkon Wium Lie

Norwegian software engineer · Norway · On the map · Developers · Born 1965 · age 61

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.

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Norsk Form Honours Award2013

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He was the chief technology officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016.

Country
Norway
Category
Developers
Type
Developer
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1965 · age 61

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