Kim Siever’s Blog

Future of Web Design

By Kim Siever, 12 Jan 05

XHTML 2.0 is the next version of XHTML and pushes to be quite extraordinary.

In addition to a whole slew of features, XHTML 2.0 will have the following:

  • moving the image tag to the object tag
  • including block elements in paragraphs
  • proving linking capabilities on all elements, not just anchors
  • giving all elements a src attribute, potentially replacing image replacement techniques.
  • the section tag
  • the line tag
  • navigation list
  • the definition item tag for definiton lists
  • and so on

It is all very exciting and looks to provide more flexibility and semantics.

Sjoerd Visscher has developed a test site that shows how XHTML 2.0 might look when styled. Very cool.

New Website: HotPepper.ca

By Kim Siever, 5 Jan 05

For those of you who know me well, know that I enjoy building websites. I released my most recent endeavour this weekend.

HotPepper.ca Wifi is a website that hosts a database of access points for wireless connections to the Internet. Anyone can add or edit a wireless location, and it is meant to be world wide.

Naturally, I have tried to offer a comprehensive collection of wireless locations in Lethbridge. However, to illustrate that this is more than a Lethbridge endeavour, I have also added a handful of wireless locations in the USA, UK, France and Australia.

If you are aware of any additional wireless locations, feel free to add one yourself. If you find the website helpful, feel free to link to it as well.