Vector Markup Language

VML was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998 by Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia, Microsoft, and Vision.

[7] As a result of these submissions, a new W3C working group was created, which produced Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

[18] Support for "ink annotations" in Office Open XML files was added to LibreOffice during the 3.7 development cycle.

Web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari or Google Chrome support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) instead of VML.

Though VML is deprecated as a standard in Internet Explorer, it is most commonly used in relation to the development of HTML emails rendered in Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013.