title: How can I use VML in a webpage?
body: <p>I wanted to use VML to draw shapes in IE.I came up with the following code but it does not display me anything in IE8..</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;style&gt;v\: * { behavior:url(#default#VML); display:inline-block }&lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;xml:namespace ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" prefix="v" /&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;xml:namespace ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" prefix="v"/&gt;
  &lt;object id="VMLRender" codebase="vgx.dll" classid="CLSID:10072CEC-8CC1-11D1-986E-00A0C955B42E"&gt;
  &lt;/object&gt; 
  
  &lt;v:rect style="width: 1in; height: 1in; left: 0.5in; top: 6in; rotation:0deg" fillcolor="#ffff00" strokecolor="#ff0000"/&gt; 
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>