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SVG Filter Effects are working in FF3 - hooray!
See for example:
http://www.svgbasics.com/filters1.html

Although I imagine these have been in the FF3 branch all along, I only just noticed today because I've been playing with some drop shadows for my company's logo. Not only do the filter effects look really nice, FF3 does svg draws/redraws much more smoothly than IE+Adobe SVG Viewer, which had (up until now perhaps) been the best in-browser SVG experience for windows. Gotta say I'm really impressed and really happy.

Um, that "vector/plane graphics animation technology" is called SVG. VRML is a whole 'nother ball game. SVG is accessible from the DOM and thereby Javascript. SVG is already in Firefox and getting better with each release. By the time this new VM is available (2008 they predict), it's conceivable that the new VM combined with the SVG implementation that's in place by then could be another option comparable to Flash. Of course developers would probably also have to contend with deploying on whatever WinFX is by then too.

Can someone verify how well the svg rendering works in Opera? Some simple tests like at svg basics would be nice to check. I've heard all sorts of varying reports on how well this worked, then compared to Firefox native rendering, then the adobe plugin. When will we see some consistency in the svg world?

I was really hoping to read this article and read the hype about xml in plain english.

Looks like I'll have to wait a bit longer.

While you're totally right about the vector/raster distinction, SVG defines filters that do some of the things that are associated with retouching a photo. One example would be a colour transform, here's an example. SVG can also include a raster image with an image tag and crop it (another photo retouching function).

Not saying that Inkscape or SVG are great for photo editing, just wanted to point out that some of these things can be done.

While you're totally right about the vector/raster distinction, SVG defines filters that do some of the things that are associated with retouching a photo. One example would be a colour transform, here's an example. SVG can also include a raster image with an image tag and crop it (another photo retouching function).

Not saying that Inkscape or SVG are great for photo editing, just wanted to point out that some of these things can be done.

Adobe does have plugin. Installation instructions for FireFox here.