XML News from Friday, September 26, 2003

Pekka Enberg has posted version 0.2.11 of XML Indent, an open source (GPL) "XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C" that "is analogous to GNU indent." This is a bug fix release.


Opera Software has released version 7.20 of its namesake web browser for Windows. Opera is $39 payware or free-beer adware. Opera supports XML, CSS, HTML, and various other acronyms. New features in version 7.20 include bidirectional text layout for Hebrew and Arabic and the data URL protocol for Base64 encoded content. Many small bugs are fixed as well. On the minus side, version 7.20 adds support for the marquee and blink tags, which can only make one wonder what kind of crack is being smoked in Norway these days. Most of the world recognized these tags were bad ideas in 1995.