By now everyone has seen Sam Fortiner’s excellent post about implementing PNG in Internet Explorer, which is great news, and fulfils a long-hoped for hole in IE functionality.
More amazing is the factoid found in the comments during a discussion of whether IE should support SVG natively:
Did you know that they have added file uploads to the latest SVG drafts? It’s utterly crazy for an image format to have features like this.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/api.html#fileupload
He’s not kidding either – that link really works, and really does link to the part of the SVG 1.2 Working Draft, which is a last call document. I don’t think I can really offer any insightful commentary into this; I’m too stunned.