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Why CSS was created

Protagonista: Håkon Wium Lie
Año: 2025
País: España
Género: Documental
Track: Development
Idioma: Inglés

Thirty years after CSS was proposed by Håkon Wium Lie, it remains one of the technical foundations of the web. Along with HTML and JavaScript, it forms the web platform which has changed how code is developed and distributed. This talk will examine some of the key moments in the history of CSS and the web. You will also be encouraged to look under the hood to fully understand how the CSS works, and why you should use it to print your own book.

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Sobre Håkon Wium Lie

Håkon Wium Lie

CSS Creator

Håkon Wium Lie created Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Along with Bert Bos, he developed CSS into a set of W3C Recommendations. As CTO of Opera Software he ensured that CSS could be used in many types of devices, and he proposed the Acid2 test to ensure that all browsers complied. He is the chairman of YesLogic, which makes the Prince CSS-to-PDF formatter. He has planted an apple orchard in his native Norway, and also owns a pipe organ workshop there. He holds a MS from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD from the University of Oslo.

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