SVG has been a part of the Open web platform standards since 1999, and was first recommended in 2001, under the SVG 1.0 standard. SVG is a consolidation of two independent proposals for an XML-based vector image format. Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML), mainly developed by Adobe and Netscape, and Vector Markup Language (VML), which was mainly represented by Microsoft and Macromedia, were both different XML formats that served the same purpose. The W3C consortium declined both of the proposals in favor of the newly developed SVG standard, which unified the best of both worlds into a single standard:
All three standards had a common goal, which was to provide a format for the web to display vector graphics in the browser. SVG is a declarative language that specifies graphical objects using...