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

File:Amaya.gif

The old icon

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

• Arena (web browser)
• Libwww
• Web design program

External links

• Amaya Home Page (W3C)
• Amaya source code on Github