Amaya (web editor)
Template:Infobox software Amaya (formerly Amaya World)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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;<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> a role it took over from the Arena web browser.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Since the last release in January 2012, INRIA and the W3C have stopped supporting the project and active development has ceased.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref name="freshmeat">Template:Cite web</ref>
History
Template:Expand section Ramzi Guetari joined the team in October 1996.<ref name="w3calumni">Template:Cite web</ref> Daniel Veillard was responsible for the integration of CSS in Amaya and maintained the Linux version.<ref name="w3calumni" />
Features
- Access keys
- Caret navigation
- Page *****ming
- 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<ref name="xml.com">Template:Cite web</ref> SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in the early 1980s,<ref name="w3calumni" /> 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,<ref name="xml.com"/> MathML<ref name="xml.com"/> and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).<ref name="xml.com"/>
A test bed application
It was used as a test-bed for new web technologies that were not supported in major browsers.<ref name="freshmeat"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Amaya was the first client that supported the RDF annotation schema using XPointer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The browser was available for Linux,<ref name="hoary">Template:Cite web</ref> Windows (NT and 95),<ref name="hoary" /> Mac OS X, AmigaOS, SPARC / Solaris,<ref name="hoary" /> AIX,<ref name="hoary" /> OSF/1.<ref name="hoary" />
Naming and logo
Amaya was formerly called Tamaya.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
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