Amaya (web editor)

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Amaya
Amaya logo 65x50.png
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Amaya 11.3 under Windows 7
Developer(s) W3C, INRIA
Initial release July 1996; 27 years ago (1996-07)[1]
Stable release 11.4.4 (January 18, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-01-18)) [±]
Preview release 11.4.7 (July 23, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-07-23)) [±]
Written in C
Operating system Windows, OS X, Linux
Platform IA-32, x64
Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Georgian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Finnish, Dutch, Slovak, Ukrainian[2][3]
Type HTML editor, web browser
License W3C
Website www.w3.org/Amaya/

Amaya (formerly Amaya World)[4] is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool[5] with browsing abilities.

It was created by a structured editor project at the INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as their testbed for web standards;[6] a role it took over from the Arena web browser.[7][8][9] Since the last release in January 2012, INRIA and the W3C have stopped supporting the project and active development has ceased.[10][11]

Amaya has relatively low system requirements, even in comparison with other web browsers from the era of its active development period, so it has been considered a "lightweight" browser.[12]

History

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.Ramzi Guetari joined the team in October 1996.[13] Daniel Veillard was responsible for the integration of CSS in Amaya and maintained the Linux version.[13]

Features

  • Access keys
  • Caret navigation
  • Page zooming
  • Password management
  • Spell checking
  • Transport protocols
  • Support for CSS, MathML, SVG, RDF and Xpointer
  • Displays free and open image formats such as PNG and SVG, as well as a subset of SVG animation.

Codebase timeline

Amaya originated as a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG[14] SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in the early 1980s,[13] and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on Grif, both developed and sold by French software company Grif SA.

Originally designed as a structured text editor (predating SGML) and later as an HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) editor, it was then expanded to include XML-based capabilities such as XHTML,[14] MathML[14] and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).[14]

A test bed application

It was used as a test-bed for new web technologies that were not supported in major browsers.[12][15]

Amaya was the first client that supported the RDF annotation schema using XPointer.[16][17][18][19] The browser was available for Linux,[20] Windows (NT and 95),[20] Mac OS X, AmigaOS, SPARC / Solaris,[20] AIX,[20] OSF/1.[20]

The old icon

Amaya was formerly called Tamaya.[21] Tamaya is the name of the type of tree represented in the logo, but it was later discovered that Tamaya is also a trademark used by a French company, so the developers chose to drop the first letter to make it "Amaya".[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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