Bert Bos

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Bert Bos
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Bert Bos
Born (1963-11-10) November 10, 1963 (age 62)
OccupationComputer scientist
Known forCascading Style Sheets
Websitewww.w3.org/People/Bos/

Gijsbert (Bert) Bos (born 1963[1]) is a Dutch computer scientist known for the development of Argo, a web browser he developed as test application for his style sheet proposal.

Life and work

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Born in The Hague, Bos studied mathematics at the University of Groningen, and wrote his PhD thesis on Rapid user interface development with the script language Gist.[1]

In 1996, he joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to work on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He is a former chairman and the current W3C Staff Contact of the CSS Working Group.[2] He is based in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Selected publications

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Bos has, along with Håkon Wium Lie, written a book about Cascading Style Sheets.

  • Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (2nd Edition), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd Edition), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

References

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  1. ^ a b Gijsbert Bos, Rapid user interface development with the script language Gist Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Dissertation, Groningen University, 1993
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