XHTML -- Still Relevant?

[Mr Initial Man]

I would--I have made SVG websites, given XHTML pages .xml extensions, and, for the giggles, created webpages using custom XML languages, interpreted via XSLT.

[Troy III]

Have you (at least) ever heard of, or worked on VML?

[Mr Initial Man]

Heard of it, but never worked with it. I was into SVG.

[Troy III]

People who liked Vectors since the beginning, had nothing else (to work on it), except VML and XML, because the actual SVG is nothing but a W3Cs re-branded VML. Meaning, when VML was around, - SVG didn't exist.

Regarding this, a reasonable question will rise: why didn't you use XML + VML at times when there was no other support of any sort of vector graphics except VML and when SVG didn't even exist?

[Mr Initial Man]

Because when I started getting into valid code (never mind anything other than HTML), SVG was already around.