Håkon Wium Lie
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| Born | 26 July 1965[1] Halden, Norway |
| Occupation | Chief Technology Officer |
| Website Personal homepage of Håkon W. Lie |
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Håkon Wium Lie (born 1965 in Halden, Norway) is a web pioneer, a standards activist, and as of 2009[update], 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.[2] Also, he has argued against the use of formatting objects on the web.[3] Wium Lie proposed the Acid2 test which was later developed and published by the Web Standards Project.[4]
In 2006, Wium Lie started campaigning for browsers to support downloadable web fonts using common font formats.[5][6][7] As of 2009[update], all major browser vendors except Microsoft have implemented web fonts this way.[8]. Likewise, in 2007, Wium Lie started campaigning for the video element to make it easier to publish video on the web.[9][10]
Wium Lie has also promoted the concept of printing from the web.[11] His book on CSS, co-authored with Bert Bos, was produced from HTML and CSS files.[12][13] These files were then converted to PDF by the Prince XML formatter.
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[edit] Education
Håkon Wium Lie attended Østfold College, West Georgia College, and MIT Media Lab, receiving an MS in Visual Studies in 1991. On February 17, 2006, he successfully defended his PhD thesis at University of Oslo.
His PhD thesis is an illuminating background to the origins of CSS and a rationale to some of the design decisions behind it—particularly as to why some features were not included and why CSS avoids trying to become DSSSL.
[edit] Career
He has worked for, among others, the W3C, INRIA, CERN, MIT Media Lab, and Norwegian telecom research in Televerket.
In 2005, he joined the board of YesLogic, the company that makes the Prince XML + CSS formatter.
[edit] Bibliography
Lie and Bert Bos wrote a book on CSS, now in its third edition.
- Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (1st ed.). ISBN 020141998X.
- Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (2nd ed.). ISBN 0201596253.
- Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd ed.). ISBN 0321193121.
- Lie, Håkon Wium (February 17th, 2006). "Cascading Style Sheets: PhD thesis". Oslo, Norway: University of Oslo. http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/phd/.
[edit] Personal life
Wium Lie lives in Oslo, Norway. There, he has started web-based campaigns against high-rise buildings[14] and advertising in the public space.[15]
[edit] References
- ^ mediaplanetonline.no
- ^ Opera to MS: Get real about interoperability, Mr Gates
- ^ Formatting Objects considered harmful
- ^ Wium Lie's initial description of Acid2
- ^ Microsoft's forgotten monopoly
- ^ Web fonts: the view from the free world
- ^ CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing
- ^ Samples at: Webfonts demo and test pages. for Prince, Safari, Opera 10 alpha, and a special build of Firefox. Retrieved 02-Aug-2009.
- ^ A call for video on the web
- ^ Håkon Wium Lie giving a Google Tech Talk on <video>
- ^ Håkon Wium Lie and Michael Day giving a Google Tech Talk on printing from the web
- ^ Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!
- ^ A description of how the CSS book was produced from HTML and CSS into PDF
- ^ StoppBlokk campaign
- ^ Stans!no campaign against advertising in Oslo
[edit] External links
- Personal homepage of Håkon W. Lie
- Old homepage at W3C
- The initial CSS proposal
- Prince XML - (supports creation of PDF with CSS and webfonts)
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