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What is VML?

VML or Vector Markup Language is a text-based vector graphics format that is well suited to delivering graphics over the Internet. It does not require a plugin and it is absolutely free!

Why?

VML is an application of Extensible Markup Language (XML). It is a text-based encoding system, which means that the source code can be viewed and altered in your browser. The conventional method of delivering graphics to the web required that the image be physically manipulated in some manner. Changing a color, a line weight, or a fill pattern in VML is just a matter of modifying the code and clicking the refresh button.

When?

VML has been around since about 1998.

Where?

VML is starting to appear in more and more places. With the recent integration of VML support in SAFE Software's new version of the Feature Manipulation Engine (FME), VML can now be converted from various spatial data formats into a 'ready to display' web page giving people a low-cost alternative to putting maps on the net.

Who?

VML specifications were created jointly by Autodesk Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Macromedia Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Visio Corporation which has since been purchased by Microsoft.

Now for the bad news... The only web browser that currently supports VML is Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0+ (with the VML option installed).