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Christmas is a time of eating julbord, more or less mandatory watching of Disney cartoons, and also eating the leftovers until the new year starts. Following on that note here is a collection of news from various places relating to SVG, enjoy and have a Happy New Year!

• Shelley Powers writes about how to make Wordpress serve XHTML with inline SVG and MathML. Very useful information, when will this be made part of the standard install so that we don't have to tweak Wordpress to work?
  
  
• While awaiting the official report from the W3C Video workshop it can be noted that Webkit also gains experimental support for Ogg Theora through the use of GStreamer library. Anyway, since the removal of Ogg Theora from the HTML5 draft there has been quite a bit of press on that, I think this post sums it up rather well.
  
  
• Kiyut released version 5.0 of their java-based Sketsa SVG Editor, they offer a free trial version.
  
  
• The free and open-source cross-platform SVG editor Inkscape enters "frost" phase for the 0.46 alpha release. Among new features can be noted better support for SVG Filters, PDF import, a paint bucket tool similar to what Illustrator has, a better gradient tool and speed improvements.