http://depth-first.com/articles/2008/07/22/vector-markup-language-for-cheminformatics en-us 40 Walking the Web of Chemical Informatics <p><a href="http://depth-first.com/articles/2008/06/06/the-other-vector-graphics-markup-language">Vector Markup Language</a> (VML, not to be confused with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML">VRML</a>) is the XML-based vector graphics system that has been present in Internet Explorer for the last eight years. Although not as widely-documented or well-known as its younger cousin, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics">SVG</a>, VML is a capable system with all of the features needed to create dynamic images on the Web client.</p> <p>Nothing beats an example for discussing technologies. To clarify the modifications to the stylesheet and namespace required by VML, an example is given on a separate page:</p> <p><a href="http://depth-first.com/demo/20080722/oxytocin.html">View the VML Image Here</a></p> <p>Internet Explorer is the only major browser to support VML, so the image won't be visible on other clients. The image is hyperlinked to the <a href="http://chempedia.com/monographs/oxytocin">Chempedia entry for Oxytocin</a>.</p> <p>This example's VML was generated with a development version of <a href="http://metamolecular.com/chemwriter">ChemWriter</a>.</p> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:19:00 +0000 urn:uuid:277b7a75-c017-40d7-b742-cd5cabcb9d10 Rich Apodaca http://depth-first.com/articles/2008/07/22/vector-markup-language-for-cheminformatics Tools chemwriter vml internetexplorer oxytocin <p>Tony, thanks - should be fixed now.</p> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:37:28 +0000 urn:uuid:4270b4c6-7a76-45ad-ac12-ab336f8b0f33 http://depth-first.com/articles/2008/07/22/vector-markup-language-for-cheminformatics#comment-652 <p>Your Chempedia entry for oxytocin doesn't appear to be connected correctly..</p> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:30:49 +0000 urn:uuid:02a0ae21-949e-4b3a-8843-511203fafe91 http://depth-first.com/articles/2008/07/22/vector-markup-language-for-cheminformatics#comment-650