The element encourage adoption of the VML notations despite the fact, that the ECMA-376 Office Open XML itself label VML as a "deprecated" notation, which should be replaced with DrawingML
The continue adoption of VML in the ECMA-376 Office Open XML specification lead to the perception, that VML is actually the preferred notation for implementation of ECMA-376 Office Open XML
The need for all application developers to actually adopt the VML specification to be able to deliver a complete implementation of the ECMA.376 Office Open XML specification seem unnecessary, and it is not best practice to include "deprecated" parts into a new specification.
ECMA should do the effort to convert any remaining VML notation into DrawingML or SVG notation.
The continue adoption of VML in the ECMA-376 Office Open XML specification lead to the perception, that VML is actually the preferred notation for implementation of ECMA-376 Office Open XML
The need for all application developers to actually adopt the VML specification to be able to deliver a complete implementation of the ECMA.376 Office Open XML specification seem unnecessary, and it is not best practice to include "deprecated" parts into a new specification.
ECMA should do the effort to convert any remaining VML notation into DrawingML or SVG notation.
VML should be maintained in the specification solely for backwards compatibility reasons and it should be maintained that the usage of VML is "deprecated". We strongly suggest that future versions of DrawingML should be extended to become a full superset of VML and subsequently no distinct parts of the specification should rely on VML, but instead utilize this extended DrawingML.
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment DK-0007 (Modified: 2008-01-03) Agreed; deprecated markup should not be required in Part 4, §2.3.3.19 and §2.3.3.21 (or at any other location within WordprocessingML). At each location where VML is required, VML will be deprecated and replaced with an alternative in the DrawingML format. This is addressed in detail within the disposition of the following comments: CA-0076, CL-0025, CL-0206, CO-0076, CO-0223, CZ-0004, CZ-0011, DE-0018, DE-0020, DE-0021, DE-0115, DE-0116, DK-0058, DK-0095, DK-0150, DK-0155, FI-0008, GB-0177, GB-0190, GB-0476, GB-0477, GR-0087, IE-0009, JP-0030, KE-0047, KE-0064, MX-0006, US-0092, US-0152, UY-0002, VE-0013, and ZA-0016. Similar Comments: CA-0016 , CL-0140 , CO-0085 , CO-0086 , DE-0019 , DE-0022 , DE-0109 , DK-0006 , DK-0008 , DK-0009 , DK- 0022 , FR-0049 , GB-0174 , GB-0178 , GR-0069 , IN-0049 , KE-0048 , KE-0053 , MY-0001 , US-0119 , US-0124 , VE-0014
