Tim Johansson is talking about Opera's support for a 3d Canvas which differs from Mozilla's in that it doesn't map directly to OpenGL, which they did because:
It makes it easier to implement on non-OpenGL platforms (such as D3D)
We wanted to have some form of collision detection available
What can you do? Here is the interface that [...]
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
