How CSS came about
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is cornerstone web technology which enables beautiful web pages across a range of devices. CSS was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Since then, CSS has added many features, and most of the information you read today will be presented by a CSS rendering engine. The exception may be paper-based books, magazines and newspapers. But this may be about to change as CSS in implemented by an creasing number of print-centric rendering engines. During the talk, you will be challenged to write a book in HTML and CSS.

Language
English
Level
Non technical / For everyone
Length
41 minutes
Type
conference
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About the speaker
Håkon Wium Lie
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After creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in 1994, Håkon Wium Lie worked at with Bert Bos to turn CSS into a set of W3C Recommendations. As CTO of Opera Software he ensured that CSS could be used in many types of devices. He is the chairman of YesLogic, which makes the Prince CSS-to-PDF formatter.
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Language
English
Level
Non technical / For everyone
Length
41 minutes
Type
conference
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