• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: "Brandt Dainow" <bd@i...>, <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:32:36 -0800

At 02:21 PM 1/21/00 -0000, Brandt Dainow wrote:
>VML is NOT a proprietary MS system.  It is a W3C submission from Microsoft,
>HP, and Visio.  Check out http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML

It's a proprietary MS system.  Anybody can submit anything to the W3C, and
lots do.  For a while back there in '97/'98, there were a lot of dueling-
submissions going on, each one covered excitedly by C|Net and PCWeek;
thankfully this seems to have mostly died off now. -Tim

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