I recently came across this website which, analogously to vectormagic for tracing, lets you use the recently developed seam carving technology (non-linear scaling) over the web.

Some interesting history for people: Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan apparently came up with this technology. Believe it or not, Dr. Shai Avidan was recently hired by Adobe, and low and behold, the technology found its way into Photoshop CS4.

I find it hard to believe that this kind of technology wouldn't make its way into Xara given its fundamental significance to the graphics world, and I'm guessing sooner rather than later. The website version is pretty slow it has to be said, but you can bet that if it appears in Xara it will be ridiculously fast.

Hope people find it useful and complement Xara's functions.