Vector Markup Language (VML) is an XML language used to produce vector graphics. VML was submitted as a proposed standard to the W3C in 1998 by Microsoft, Macromedia, and others. VML was rejected as a web standard because Adobe, Sun, and others submitted a competing proposal known as PGML. The two standards were joined and improved upon to create SVG. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... Steam Locomotive 7646 as a vector, originally Windows Metafile (converted to GIF for display here). ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, SEHK: 4338) is an American multinational computer technology corporation that has global annual sales of over 41. ... Macromedia (formerly NASDAQ: MACR) was a graphics and web development software house. ... Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML) is an XML-based language for representing vector graphics. ... Static image generated from an SVG example. ...
Even though rejected as a standard by the W3C, and largely ignored by developers, Microsoft still implemented VML into Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher and in Microsoft Office 2000 and higher. Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary graphical web browser made by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. ... Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. ...
Google Maps currently uses VML for rendering vectors when running on Internet Explorer 5.5+. It also has SVG support for browsers that support SVG Screenshot of Google Maps showing a route from Toronto to Ottawa Penang island and Seberang Prai on the mainland as seen on Google Maps [1] Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a free, web map server application and technology provided by Google that powers many map based... Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary graphical web browser made by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. ... Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ...
VML is an application of Extensible MarkupLanguage (XML) 1.0 which defines a format for the encoding of vector information together with additional markup to describe how that information may be displayed and edited.
VML is written using the syntax of XML just as HTML is written using the syntax of SGML (the Standard Generalized MarkupLanguage, [ISO 8879]) - XML is a restricted form of SGML.
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