Flash was a great first web vector tool. But vector has been going declarative like SVG and even XAML for Silverlight. Flash/Flex libraries were going this wa

Flash was a great first web vector tool. But vector has been going declarative like SVG and even XAML for Silverlight. Flash/Flex libraries were going this way as well with xml markup. I love JSON, YAML and other more micro messaging/data formats but for vector and paths, xml actually works pretty well. I do wish they also supported more micro formats if possible though as XAML ended up huge. But for source control and partial updates at least xml works better than binary.