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Amaya
Developer(s)W3C, INRIA
Initial releaseJuly 1996[1]
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Georgian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Finnish, Dutch, Slovak, Ukrainian[2][3]
TypeWYSIWYG Web editor, web browser
LicenseW3C
Websitewww.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]

History

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]

Codebase timeline

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.

A test bed application

It was used as a test-bed for new web technologies that were not 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]

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ "About Thot". INRIA. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  2. ^ Vatton, Irène (9 December 2009). "Amaya Binary Releases". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Amaya Frequently Asked Questions Section I.7. Can I change the dialogue language?". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  4. ^ "Internet Browsers". 24 March 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
  5. ^ Dubie, Bill; Sciuto, Dave (30 November 2006). "Amaya a win for Web coding". Seacoast online. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  6. ^ "History of the Web". Oxford Brookes University. 2002. Archived from the original on 25 September 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Lafon, Yves; Lie, Håkon Wium (15 June 1996). "Welcome to Arena". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  8. ^ Bowers, Neil. "Weblint: Just Another Perl Hack". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Bos, Bert; Lie, Håkon Wium (April 1997). Cascading style sheets: designing for the Web. Addison Wesley Longman. p. 263. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  10. ^ a b Klimkiewicz, Kamil (18 January 2003). "Lightweight Web Browsers". freshmeat. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  11. ^ a b c "W3C Alumni". World Wide Web Consortium. 11 June 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2010.
  12. ^ a b c d Quint, Antoine (21 November 2001). "SVG: Where Are We Now?". XML.com. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  13. ^ Vincent Quint (20 February 1997). "An Introduction to Amaya". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 20 February 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Dumbill, Edd (9 May 2001). "Reports from WWW10". XML.com. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  15. ^ "Annotea Project". World Wide Web Consortium. 2 March 2001. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  16. ^ Dodds, Leigh (13 November 2000). "Annotate the Web with Amaya and RDF". XMLhack. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  17. ^ "W3C Annotea Project Supports Collaboration on the Web". Coverpages. 9 March 2001. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  18. ^ a b c d e Evans, Peter (7 September 2003). "Optimized for no one, but pretty much OK with . . ". Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  19. ^ Bert Bos (11 March 1996). "Re: tamaya tigers". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
  20. ^ "Amaya Frequently Asked Questions". World Wide Web Consortium. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.

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