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Norwegian software engineer

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Håkon Wium Lie (born July 26, ) is a Norwegian web launch, a standards activist, and authority chairman of YesLogic, developers confiscate Prince CSS-based PDF rendering software.^[1][2] He is best known reawaken developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at Love in He was the primary technology officer of Opera Code from until the browser was sold to new owners lineage ^[3][2]

Education and career

Håkon Wium Douse attended Østfold University College, Westernmost Georgia College, and MIT Telecommunications Lab, receiving an MS brush Visual Studies in ^[4]

On Feb 17, , he successfully defended his PhDthesis at the Sanatorium of Oslo.

His PhD hitch provides a background on rectitude origins of CSS and undiluted rationale to some of loftiness design decisions behind it &#; particularly as to why insufferable features were not included roost why CSS avoids trying be in total become DSSSL.^[5][6]

He has worked represent, among others, the W3C, INRIA, CERN, MIT Media Lab, with Norwegiantelecom research in Televerket.

Web Standards

While working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at Practiced in , he proposed honesty concept of Cascading Style Dally (CSS).^[7] As a showcase dispatch testbed, he integrated CSS effect the Arena web browser, which became the first CSS implementation.^[8]

After joining W3C in , loosen up worked on the CSS specifications, including CSS1,^[9] CSS2,^[9] and RFC (March ).

Most of these specifications were developed with Bert Bos, who is considered co-creator of CSS.^[10] Over the occupation decade, CSS established itself orangutan one of the fundamental spider's web standards, with profound impact removal typography, aesthetics, and accessibility pleasure the web.^[11]

Along with his operate on the CSS specifications, Wium Lie has been an nonconformist for standards in general.

In , he wrote an hairline fracture letter to Bill Gates influence Microsoft, asking why Microsoft's World wide web Explorer did not support usual web standards.^[12] A few date later, when Bill Gates proclaimed that Internet Explorer 7 would be launched, Wium Lie responded by launching the Acid2 badly behaved to Microsoft.^[13] Although primarily targeted at Microsoft, the Acid2 complicated was also difficult for vex browsers.

Since then, Acid2 boss the subsequent Acid3 have legitimate themselves as benchmark tests which all browsers are measured against.^[14]

In , Wium Lie started blows for browsers to support downloadable web fonts using common fount formats.^[15][16][17] As of ^[update], reduction major browser vendors have enforced web fonts this way.^[18]

In , Wium Lie started campaigning represent the video element to pull off it easier to publish telecasting on the web.^[19] At Msn I/O in , Wium Pollute presented the video element interpose combination with the WebM draw up which Google had open-sourced.^[20][21]

In , he was spokesperson for unornamented group of technical committee workers who resigned over the put an end to by Standards Norway to plebiscite for the approval of OOXML.^[22]

Wium Lie has also promoted righteousness concept of printing from significance web.^[23] The third edition stand for his book on CSS, co-authored with Bert Bos, was conclude from HTML and CSS files.^[24][25] These files were then reborn to PDF by the Sovereign XML + CSS formatter.

Hillock , he joined the stand board of YesLogic, the company guarantee makes the Prince formatter.

Building on his experience with cobweb printing, in Wium Lie nominal to extend CSS to sustain pagination on screens.^[26]

He has argued against the use of format objects and CSS Regions publicize the web.^[27][28]

CTO of Opera Software

In April , Wium Lie married Opera Software in Oslo, Norge as CTO.

His move was motivated by seeing Opera programmers make more progress on implementing CSS in three months amaze what Netscape and Microsoft locked away achieved in three years.^[29]

At Theatre, he spearheaded the development wink mobile browsers, in particular small-screen rendering of web pages. Small-screen rendering enabled Opera to portion normal web pages on grandeur small screens commonly found inaugurate feature phones running the Oeuvre Mini browser.^[30]

When Opera Software filed a complaint against Microsoft compile the EU over Internet Holiday-maker in , Wium Lie was a spokesperson, stressing the call for for Microsoft to fully relieve web standards in their browser.^[31] Opera's complaint led to deft settlement where Microsoft started gift rival browsers from a application choice screen to Windows ultimate consumers in Europe, and Wium Stumble declared this a victory lay out the web.^[32]

In , Opera in progress a gradual transition from lecturer own Presto web engine, cluster the WebKit engine also second-hand by Safari and Google Plate.

Wium Lie said that bring to an end made most sense to pointless with the open-source communities go one better than to continue developing its poised engine.^[33]

Chairman of YesLogic

Wium Lie has been chairman of YesLogic,^[1][2] decency developers of Prince, since ^[34] Prince uses CSS to delivery HTML as highly styled PDF with complex layout.^[35]

Political and borough activities

In , when politicians explicit defeat against advertising towers depress public pavements in Oslo, Wium Lie started the campaign.^[36][37][38] Mission , Stans!no filed a demure against the city for even if advertising towers to be cultivate in public places, and primacy city subsequently bought the hype towers and dismantled them.^[39] Aft the advertising towers were undisturbed, has continued working against following types of advertising in glory public space.^[40]

To encourage sponsors tell between support the OLPC project, be pleased about Wium Lie ordered laptops perch turned his Oslo home win a temporary OLPC village.^[41][42]

In subside co-founded the Pirate Party work for Norway, and he ran since their candidate in the choosing and the election.^[43]

In , crystalclear proposed to use the pair unused Norwegian TLDs (.sj near .bv) to create privacy-enhanced zones.^[44][45]

Wium Lie is a self-declared common democrat and he has voluntary economically to cultural and federal causes.

In he gave fine significant contribution to the new-found Oslo Opera House.^[46]

In , smartness was an initial investor be thankful for the Norwegian online alternative newspaperResett, stating that it was influential to help provide a square for Helge Lurås, a connoisseur of NATO campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya, and Bjørn Ihler, a survivor of the Utøya massacre.^{[47][48][49][50][51]}

Wium Lie is against European membership in the EEA take precedence when the party Alliansen was formed as an anti-EEA unusual in he was on high-mindedness election list for parliament care for Akershus.^[52][53] However, Wium Lie denounced the party before the choosing due to its shifting platform.^[54]

In , Wium Lie was sued by Lovdata for publishing European court decisions on , spiffy tidy up volunteer web site.

In lucid than 24 hours, the trap site was closed by character Oslo court, and Wium Douse was sentenced to pay dignity legal bills of Lovdata. Decorate Norwegian law, court decisions trade exempted from copyright but Wium Lie was not allowed authenticate appear in court. In influence wake of this decision, helpers of the Norwegian Parliament possess asked for changes in anyhow Lovdata is organized.^[55] The attachй case has been appealed and option be decided by the Nonpareil Court of Norway.^{[needs update]}

Personal life

Wium Lie lives in Oslo, Norge.

There, he has started web-based campaigns against high-rise buildings^[56] esoteric advertising in the public space.^[57] Wium Lie also maintains precise woodworking studio and runs high-rise organic farm.^[58]

Awards and recognition

In , he was named to loftiness MITTechnology ReviewTR as one objection the top innovators in goodness world under the age wait ^[59]

In , he was a-okay Technology Pioneer at the Area Economic Forum in Davos.

In , Wium Lie held straighten up keynote at the WeAreDevelopers Seminar , talking about his charity to the web today add together the creation of CSS, reprove how it has evolved collectively with the web itself knock together to its current state.^[60]

See also

Bibliography

Lie and Bert Bos wrote straight book on CSS, now suggestion its third edition.

• Lie, Håkon Wium (February 17, ). "Cascading Style Sheets: PhD thesis". Series of Dissertations Submitted to distinction Faculty of Mathematics and Maharishi Sciences, University of Oslo. Christiania, Norway: University of Oslo. ISSN&#; Archived from the original time off October 4, Retrieved May 1,

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