Bert Bos is a computer scientist. He studied mathematics at the University of Groningen, and wrote his PhD thesis on Rapid user interface development with the script language Gist. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mathematics Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles — A collection of articles on various math topics, with interactive Java... Front of the main building of the University of Groningen The University of Groningen (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen or RuG) is a university in Groningen, Netherlands. ...
In 1996, he joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to work on CSS. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ...
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Bos has, along with Håkon Wium Lie, written a book about Cascading Style Sheets. HÃ¥kon Wium Lie (born 1965 in Norway) is, as of 2004, presently Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software, where he has worked since 1999. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ...
Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, ISBN 020141998X
Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (2nd Edition), ISBN 0201596253
BertBos: So, perhaps we need a scripting language or two for the 80%, with the logic separate from the UI so that programs are portable, device independent, accessible, maintainable, re-usable...right from the start.
BertBos: Imagine we could dstart from scratch, leave hte difficult 20% to Java, take two years to define our language, and two more years for version 2.
BertBos: They are different; In the case of compound documents, it is important to to know.
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