XML News from Friday, October 29, 2004

Opera Software has posted the second beta of version 7.6.0 of their namesake web browser for Windows. Opera supports HTML, XML, XHTML, RSS, WML 2.0, and CSS. XSLT is not supported. Other features include IRC, mail, and news clients and pop-up blocking. There are lots of little changes, bug fixes, and usability enhancements in 7.60. However major new features include speech-enabled browsing (including support for XHTML+Voice), medium-screen rendering, and inline error pages. Opera is $39 payware.


The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted the last call working draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. Non-editorial changes in this draft include:


Kiyut has released Sketsa 2.2, a $29 payware SVG editor written in Java. Java 1.4.1 or later is required.