Håkon Wium Lie's Initial CSS Proposal

Name: Håkon Wium Lie's Initial CSS Proposal
Start: 1994-10-10
Location: CERN, Switzerland (circulated on www-talk mailing list)

Håkon Wium Lie formally presented his 'Cascading HTML Style Sheets' proposal, outlining the core principles of separation of content and presentation and the cascading mechanism.

Significance

This marked the birth of CSS, providing the foundational concepts that would evolve into the web's standard styling language.

Key facts

Date: 1994-10-10
Type: invention
Location: CERN, Switzerland (circulated on www-talk mailing list)