Hakon Wium Lie, born in 1965 in Halden, Norway, is a Norwegian web pioneer and standards activist best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. He served as chief technology officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold in 2016, and is chairman of YesLogic, developer of the Prince CSS-based PDF rendering software.
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1. Wikidata: Håkon Wium Lie
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CSS, aka Cascading Style Sheets, is an open source stylesheet language created in 1996 by Håkon Wium Lie.
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