Håkon Wium Lie (born 1965 in Norway) is, as of 2004, presently Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software, where he has worked since 1999. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Norway - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focussed on technical issues in a company. ... Logo of the Opera browser. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

He attended Østfold College and West Georgia College, receiving a B.Sc in 1987. Sign at University Entrance The University of West Georgia is a Liberal arts University located in Carrollton, Georgia, approximately 50 miles (80 km) west of Atlanta, Georgia. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets in 1994. He has worked for, among others, the W3C, INRIA, CERN, the MIT Media Lab and Norwegian telecom research in Televerket. CSS Zen garden with the Paravion style sheet CSS Zen garden with the Uncultivated style sheet In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a structured document written in markup languages like HTML and XHTML. In addition, the language can be applied... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ... The Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. ... CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ... The MIT Media Lab engages in education and research in the digital technology used for expression and communication. ... Norway - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Telecommunication is the extension of communication over a distance. ... Televerket was the name of the Swedish and Norwegian government agencies for telecommunications. ...

Bibliography

Lie has, along with Bert Bos, written a book on CSS, now in its second edition. Bert Bos is a computer scientist. ...

• Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, ISBN 020141998X
• Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (2nd Edition), ISBN 0201596253

External links

• Personal homepage of Håkon W. Lie (http://people.opera.com/howcome/)
• Old homepage at W3C (http://www.w3.org/People/howcome/)