Gijsbert (Bert) Bos (born 1963Gijsbert Bos
Rapid user interface development with the script language Gist
, Dissertation, Groningen University, 1993) is a computer scientist known for the development of Argo, a

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he developed as test application for his style sheet proposal.

Life and work

Born in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

, Bos studied mathematics at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

, and wrote his PhD

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on ''Rapid user interface development with the script language Gist''. In 1996, he joined the

World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working ...

(W3C) to work on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He is a former chairman and the current W3C Staff Contact of the CSS Working Group. He is based in

Sophia Antipolis (wisdom), gr, (Ἀντίπολις, antipolis) ("opposite city" from its position on the opposite side of the Var estuary from Nice, also former name of Antibes, part of the technology park) , postal_code = 06220 (Vallauris), 06250 (Mo ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

Selected publications

Bos has, along with

Håkon Wium Lie Håkon Wium Lie (born July 26, 1965) is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016. He is best known for developing Cascading Sty ...

, written a book about Cascading Style Sheets. * ''Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web'', * ''Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web'' (2nd Edition), *''Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web'' (3rd Edition),

References

External links

Homepage at W3C
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bos, Bert 1963 births Living people Scientists from The Hague Dutch computer programmers Dutch computer scientists University of Groningen alumni