Bert 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.

Bert Bos
Bert Bos
Born	(1963-11-10) November 10, 1963 (age 61) The Hague, Netherlands
Occupation	Computer scientist
Known for	Cascading Style Sheets
Website	www.w3.org/People/Bos/

Life and work

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

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

• Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, ISBN 0-201-41998-X
• Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (2nd Edition), ISBN 0-201-59625-3
• Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd Edition), ISBN 0-321-19312-1