SVG influenced by Precision Graphics Markup Language
History
SVG has been in development within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999 after six competing proposals for vector graphics languages had been submitted to the consortium during 1998 (see below).The early SVG Working Group decided not to develop any of the commercial submissions, but to create a new markup language that was informed by but not really based on any of them.SVG was developed by the W3C SVG Working Group starting in 1998, after six competing vector graphics submissions were received that year: