VML was great when you wanted to do canvas-like things with IE6 Back In The Day: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;excanvas.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;excanvas.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p>I had some visual analytics tools that ran &quot;canvas&quot; on IE6 in 2008 thanks to VML. Never did pure VML but it was a nice crutch to have if you wanted to get very experimental and very cross-browser.