Editing Vector Markup Language (section)

== History ==

VML was submitted to the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) in 1998 by [[Autodesk]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[Macromedia]], [[Microsoft]], and [[Vision Corporation|Vision]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-VML-19980513|title=Vector Markup Language (VML)|last=Mathews|first=Brian|author2=Brian Dister |author3=John Bowler |author4=Howard Cooper stein |author5=Ajay Jindal |author6=Tuan Nguyen |author7=Peter Wu |author8=Troy Sandal |date=13 May 1998|publisher=[[W3C]]|access-date=2009-05-08}}</ref> Around the same time other competing W3C submissions were received in the area of web vector graphics, such as [[Precision Graphics Markup Language]] (PGML) from [[Adobe Systems]], [[Sun Microsystems]], and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-PGML-19980410|title=Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML)|last=Al-Shamma|first=Nabeel|author2=Robert Ayers |author3=Richard Cohn |author4=Jon Ferraiolo |author5=Martin Newell |author6=Roger K. de Bry |author7=Kevin McCluskey |author8=Jerry Evans |date=10 April 1998|publisher=[[W3C]]|access-date=2009-05-08}}</ref> As a result of these submissions, a new W3C working group was created, which produced [[Scalable Vector Graphics]] (SVG). SVG became a W3C Recommendation in 2001 as a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG10/ |title=Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification |author=W3C |date=2001-09-04 |access-date=2010-07-29}}</ref> VML has been largely deprecated in favor of other formats, such as SVG.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164114.aspx |title= Vector Graphics | publisher = MSDN Magazine |author=Dennis Forbes |date=July 2003 |access-date=2010-07-29}}</ref> SVG is not compatible with VML.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v164/vml164.htm |title=VML&nbsp;— Vector Graphics on the Internet |date=July 2001 |access-date=2010-07-29}}</ref>

Development of the format ceased in 1998.<ref>{{ cite book |author1=Jon Frost |author2=Stefan Goessner |author3=Michel Hirtzler | title=Learn SVG: the web graphics standard | year=2003 | isbn=0-9741773-0-X | page=7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BO4XUooS8TEC&q=learn%20svg%20or%20vml&pg=PT72 | quote=Support for Microsoft's submission, VML, has been realized in Internet Explorer, but development stopped in the autumn of 1998. }}</ref> VML is implemented in Internet Explorer from [[Internet Explorer 5|version 5]] to [[Internet Explorer 9|version 9]] and in [[Microsoft Office 2000]]. VML is no longer available in [[Internet Explorer 10]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Internet Explorer 10 Compatibility Cookbook (Windows)|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh801219%28v=vs.85%29.aspx|work=[[MSDN]]|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=28 November 2012|date=1 October 2012}}</ref> Microsoft expects web sites to transition to SVG.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2e8d87f2-c6ce-491f-a8e1-3413e0cff24a&displaylang=en |title=VML to SVG Migration Guide |author=Seth McEvoy |publisher=Microsoft |date=2010-03-16 |access-date=2010-07-29}}</ref> Version 2 of the [[Google Maps]] [[JavaScript]] API used to use VML for vector paths on [[Internet Explorer]] 5.5+,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/overlays.html#Drawing_Polylines |title=Map Overlays&nbsp;— Drawing Polylines |work=Google Maps API&nbsp;— version 2 |access-date=2010-05-25}}</ref> but has been officially [[deprecate]]d in favour of version 3, which does not.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html |title=Google Maps Javascript API V3 Reference |work=Google Maps JavaScript API V3 |access-date=2010-05-25}}</ref>