I've had a lot of people prodding me for an update on with:Style. Things are moving rapidly. We haven't achieved the goals we intended to achieve by now, but since we intend to release in the fourth quarter we may be moving that towards the end of december.

What we have done though has cleaned up the layout code even more so that it is extremely easy for us to debug. For those of you unfamiliar with the way CSS and HTML work ala w3 specs - welcome to the club, no one really does. We now have a fairly good understanding of how it all plugs together and our code reflects that.

I'd just like to point out that our radical changes to our layout algorithms would have been impossible if it hadn't been for our tests suite!

On other fronts, Holger has successfully made Quicktime run inside a VW window and is trying to get java to run too. And another surprise bonus, somebody has just published some ECMAScript packages to public store (This is JavaScript). Things are becoming very interesting.

Other more technical details, mouse over style changing of colours, text decoration, even font size, etc, is always under 10 milliseconds for a full update, etc of an area. The debugging tools are about to be separated out so that they are 'floating' and can be attached to a with:Style view at any time. Editing now reaks the benefits of the sub 10 millisecond updates too. We may also be game enough to take the XSL transformation value->old value issue soon.