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"How Come There's No 'C' in 'AJAX'?" Asks Håkon Wium Lie at AJAXWorld

Creator of CSS, with Norwegian Tongue in Cheek, Wonders Whether the Acronym Could Be Revised?
By Jeremy Geelan
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October 4, 2006 07:30 PM EDT
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How about if we spelt AJAX differently, asked Håkon Wium Lie (pictured right), at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, so that the fundamental role played by CSS was incorporated and immortalized?

In a lively session entitled "Why Browsers (Still) Matter," Lie offered the audience a variety of tongue-in-cheek alternatives, including 'AJACX.' 

Known as "The Father of CSS," he proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets in 1994. He has worked for, among others, the W3C, INRIA, CERN, the MIT Media Lab and Norwegian telecom research in Televerket, but since 1999 he has been CTO of browser pioneer Opera Software.

 


Håkon Wium Lie, the "Father of CSS" with Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at
AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California.

 

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Expo series, of the International Virtualization Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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