Vector Markup Language

The Vector Markup Language (VML ) was a markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics in XML. VML was passed in 1998 by Microsoft, Macromedia and others on the standardization of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). As a web standard VML was rejected as Adobe, Sun, and other requested another standard under the name of Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ). These two proposals were united under the name Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG) and adopted as a standard by the W3C.

Although it has been rejected as a standard by the W3C and largely ignored by developers, Microsoft VML is implemented in Internet Explorer 5 to 9 and in Microsoft Office 2000 and later. From the Internet Explorer 10 is no longer supported Microsoft VML. When you save Office documents as " Web Site" format is used to embed vector drawings such in the resulting HTML files that can be opened without loss with the same Office program again.

Google Maps uses VML to time for drawing vector graphics, when Internet Explorer is used 5.5 or higher.

Example

The following example provides a VML oval with blue filling is: