Interview with Håkon Wium Lie
March 21st, 2009
Interview with Håkon Wium Lie
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Check out this Slashdot interview with Håkon Wium Lie, the originator of the CSS idea. (Can you believe it’s been over 10 years since CSS was proposed? Time flies when you’re coding with tables!) Lie currently serves as CTO of Opera Software.
In the interview, Lie suggests that before releasing IE 7, Microsoft should ensure that the browser passes the Acid2 test and supports TrueType downloadable fonts. He also discusses XML, microformats, Ajax, and (of course) the future of CSS. Read the interview and watch him effortlessly knock down all suggestions that CSS is somehow lacking in capabilities.
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