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My video interview with Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie

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 Published March 16th, 2007 2:18 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with Håkon Wium Lie, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Opera Software, and do a short interview with him.

Among the topics we touched on were web standards and the Acid2 browser test. On this day two years ago, Hakon announced the Acid2 test in a Cnet column. We also talked about the progress of CSS3 support in Opera and other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE), and Safari. Hakon is of course known as the “father of CSS” after proposing CSS back in 1995.

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  1. 1 Ramunas Mar 16th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    Nice interview! :)

  2. 2 Muzammil Mar 16th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    His wikipedia page is pretty thin for a guy who did a lot for the web…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Håkon_Wium_Lie

  3. 3 Jezetha Mar 16th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Seconded.

    You should do this more often, Daniel!

  4. 4 Jezetha Mar 16th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    My ’seconded’ refers to the first message…

  5. 5 Daniel Goldman Mar 16th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Jezetha, I have a couple more interviews with him. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to post them next week.

  6. 6 Grey Mar 16th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    You know… I was about to ask for a transcript… fortunately this PC’s IE has Flash… but now that I’ve seen the interview I get why it would not help that much. A big part of that interview was hearing hakon talk. Really a very nice and charismatic guy!

    And I finally found out how to pronounce his name ;)

  7. 7 GT500 Mar 16th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows Vista

    Good interview.

    Thanks for choking Hakon’s web address out of him. I’ve always wondered if he had a book on CSS, and there was a link to it right on his homepage.

    Needless to say, that book was ordered before I starting typing this… ;)

  8. 8 Daniel Goldman Mar 17th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Grey, why couldn’t you watch the interview in Opera? If Flash doesn’t work in Opera, try installing it Flash again.

    Download

  9. 9 Fraidy Goldman Mar 17th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Nice video!!!
    :)

  10. 10 BigBo Mar 19th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 on Windows Windows XP

    i like this scandinavian guy!

  11. 11 Jezetha Mar 19th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    “Jezetha, I have a couple more interviews with him. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to post them next week.”

    I’m looking forward to them, Daniel!

  12. 12 Jezetha Mar 19th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I’m looking forward to the remaining interviews, Daniel!

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