Amaya (web editor)

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Amaya
Amaya icon
Amaya inuse.png
Amaya 11.3 under Windows XP
Developer(s) W3C, INRIA
Initial release July 1996[1]
Stable release 11.4.4  (January 18, 2012; 11 days ago (2012-01-18)) [±]
Preview release none  (n/a) [±]
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Georgian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Finnish, Dutch, Slovak, Ukrainian[2][3]
Type WYSIWYG Web 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, created by a structured editor project at the INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Amaya is used as a testbed for web standards[6] and replaced the Arena web browser.[7][8][9] Compared with those of other modern web browsers, Amaya's system requirements are minor.[10][dubious – discuss]

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Ramzi Guetari joined the team in October 1996.[11] Daniel Veillard was responsible for the integration of CSS in Amaya and maintained the Linux version.[11]

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Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG[12] SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in the early 1980s,[11] 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,[12] MathML[12] and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).[12]

Amaya displays free and open image formats such as PNG and SVG, as well as a subset of SVG animation.

[edit] A test bed application

It is used today as a test-bed for new web technologies that are not yet supported in major browsers.[10][13]

Amaya is the first client that supported the RDF annotation schema using XPointer.[14][15][16][17] The browser is available for Linux,[18] Windows (NT and 95),[18] Mac OS X, AmigaOS, SPARC / Solaris,[18] AIX,[18] OSF/1.[18]

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The old icon

Tamaya[19] was formerly the name of Amaya. Tamaya is the name of the tree represented in the logo. Tamaya is used by a French company and is trademarked so the developers chose to drop the first letter to make it Amaya.[20]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "About Thot". INRIA. http://opera.inrialpes.fr/Thot/AboutThot.html. Retrieved 15 August 2010. 
  2. ^ Vatton, Irène (9 December 2009). "Amaya Binary Releases". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html. Retrieved 10 July 2010. 
  3. ^ "Amaya Frequently Asked Questions Section I.7. Can I change the dialogue language?". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/FAQ.html#1.8.. Retrieved 22 May 2009. 
  4. ^ "Internet Browsers". 24 Mar 2009. http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra/browsers.html. Retrieved 10 July 2010. 
  5. ^ Dubie, Bill; Sciuto, Dave (30 November 2006). "Amaya a win for Web coding". Seacoast online. http://archive.seacoastonline.com/news/11302006/business-b-11.30_shareware.html. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  6. ^ "History of the Web". Oxford Brookes University. 2002. Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20100925204436/http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/primers/history/origins.htm. Retrieved 10 July 2010. 
  7. ^ Lafon, Yves; Lie, Håkon Wium (15 June 1996). "Welcome to Arena". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/Arena/Status.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010. 
  8. ^ Bowers, Neil. Weblint: Just Another Perl Hack. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.54.7191. 
  9. ^ Bos, Bert; Lie, Håkon Wium (April 1997). Cascading style sheets: designing for the Web. Addison Wesley Longman. p. 263. http://books.google.com/books?id=q0jbAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 9 June 2010. 
  10. ^ a b Klimkiewicz, Kamil (18 January 2003). "Lightweight Web Browsers". freshmeat. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/695/#Amaya. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  11. ^ a b c "W3C Alumni". World Wide Web Consortium. 11 June 2010. http://www.w3.org/People/Alumni.html. Retrieved 23 June 2010. 
  12. ^ a b c d Quint, Antoine (21 November 2001). "SVG: Where Are We Now?". XML.com. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/svgtools.html. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  13. ^ Vincent Quint; Irène Vatton (20 February 1997). "An Introduction to Amaya". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-amaya. Retrieved 2009-02-20. 
  14. ^ Dumbill, Edd (9 May 2001). "Reports from WWW10". XML.com. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/05/09/www10/index.html. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  15. ^ "Annotea Project". World Wide Web Consortium. 2 March 2001. http://annotest.w3.org/. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  16. ^ Dodds, Leigh (13 November 2000). "Annotate the Web with Amaya and RDF". XMLhack. http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=888. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  17. ^ "W3C Annotea Project Supports Collaboration on the Web.". Coverpages. 9 March 2001. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2001-03-09-c.html. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 
  18. ^ a b c d e Evans, Peter (7 September 2003). "Optimized for no one, but pretty much OK with . . .". http://hoary.org/browse/. Retrieved 3 June 2010. 
  19. ^ Bert Bos (11 March 1996). "Re: tamaya tigers". World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/Arena/bert.html. Retrieved 15 June 2010. 
  20. ^ "Amaya Frequently Asked Questions". World Wide Web Consortium. 26 February 2009. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/FAQ.html#1.9. Retrieved 8 March 2009. 

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