SVG influenced by Vector 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:Web Schematics, from CCLRC
PGML, from Adobe Systems, IBM, Netscape and Sun Microsystems
VML, by Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia, Microsoft, and Vision
Hyper Graphics Markup Language (HGML), by Orange UK and PRP
WebCGM, from Boeing, InterCAP Graphics Systems, Inso Corporation, CCLRC, and Xerox
DrawML, from Excosoft ABThe working group was chaired at the time by Chris Lilley of the W3C.
The SVG specification was updated to version 1.1 in 2011. Scalable Vector Graphics 2 became a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 15 September 2016. SVG 2 incorporates several new features in addition to those of SVG 1.1 and SVG Tiny 1.2.