Apparently Opera 9 TP2 will be released tomorrow. I'm excited about this because in numerous bug reports and emails that I've sent to Opera developers over the past 4 months, lately all I hear is "This is fixed in our current development build". Well now I'll get a chance to taste that - let's hope we see numerous improvements in the SVG implementation. Opera Widgets sounds like a really cool concept too, taking on Mozilla's XULRunner approach.
klog has written a library that handles drawing "about 80% of basic shapes" for SVG using nothing but DHTML. I haven't tried it out yet, simply because all the browsers on all of my machines support SVG (Internet Explorer with the Adobe plugin, of course). I might actually uninstall ASV on one of my machines just to see how his library works. Read the rest of this entry ...
Nice commencement address speech by Bill Watterson, artist/author of Calvin & Hobbes