SVG is heading for its 1.2 release but behind the minor increment in version hide many more new exciting features than one expects such as text flow through arbitrary shapes; the ability to define rendering and behaviour for one's arbitrary XML vocabulary; XForms integration to define powerful GUIs; audio and video support for better multimedia documents; a better DOM with amongst other things networking support; and many other magical additions.

This talk goes through these additions with demos, showing how they contribute to make SVG not just a nifty 2D language but rather the graphical interface to all things XML.