CrazyEngineers talk with Håkon Wium Lie
Opera Chief Technology Officer, Håkon Wium Lie was interviewed by Crazy Engineers. The interview focused on Håkons story, from the birth of CSS to the implementation of the video tag in HTML5.
Håkon left Norway to work at CERN in the early 90's. At CERN he developed CSS and saw the birth of the W3C. In the interview Håkon also talks about how the web came to be what it is today. As well as describing challenges related to creating and influencing the future of the web.
Head on over to Crazy Engineers for the full interview! 
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About this article
| Published in | Choose Opera |
|---|---|
| Date | August 6, 2010 |
| Author | Aleksander Aas |
| Tags | Crazy Engineers, Håkon Wium Lie, css |
| Original | Internet Archive |
TamilFriday, August 6, 2010 1:58:55 PM
СергейFriday, August 6, 2010 2:07:38 PM
Erik ShikerinFriday, August 6, 2010 2:09:59 PM
Originally posted by Serega124:
World wide web consortium afaik:
wikipedia article
Aleksander AasFriday, August 6, 2010 2:10:01 PM
Originally posted by Serega124:
That's my bad :P To much StarCraft 2 and talking about Warcraft 3..
СергейFriday, August 6, 2010 2:24:58 PM
Originally posted by erikshi:
I know. But it is W3C
Originally posted by Aleksander:
Sami SerolaFriday, August 6, 2010 2:44:08 PM
Originally posted by Aleksander:
Nicolas MendozaFriday, August 6, 2010 2:57:37 PM
Cutting SpoonFriday, August 6, 2010 5:31:03 PM
Aas: It'd be nice if Opera could be licensed as a game plugin for portals like battle.net; I've heard that several MMOs have funky versions of Webkit/Chromium or Firefox for basic things like email.
Charles SchlossFriday, August 6, 2010 6:00:23 PM
d4rkn1ghtFriday, August 6, 2010 9:21:23 PM
Anton DiazFriday, August 6, 2010 9:57:18 PM
AngelikiFriday, August 6, 2010 10:31:29 PM
nice!
Erik ShikerinWednesday, August 11, 2010 8:02:25 AM
Originally posted by Serega124:
W3 = 3 W's
World, Wide, Web
C = Consortium