> SVG is based on VML. Microsoft proposed it to W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML), and W3C developed it further until it became

> SVG is based on VML. Microsoft proposed it to W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML), and W3C developed it further until it became SVG. Not exactly. When Adobe and Netscape submitted PGML[1] for standardisation, Macromedia and Microsoft responded by submitting VML[2]. SVG was born as a synthesis of both, but the dominance of IE (which supported VML instead of SVG) and Flash (thanks to being bundled with Windows) meant that there were no decent authoring tools or meaningful browser support for SVG. Far from being a serious contribution to open standards, VML was a counter-offensive in the Browser Wars. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-PGML-19980410 http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-PGML-19980410 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-VML-19980513 http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-VML-19980513