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EDITOR NOTES
This is a pre-release. Handle with care!. Stable versions, as well as versions for PPC and older operating systems, can be found on the download page.
DESCRIPTION
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG
style of interface, similar to that of the most popular commercial browsers. With such an interface, users do not need to know the HTML or CSS languages.
Features of Amaya include the following:
- Amaya lets users both browse and author Web pages
Using Amaya you can create Web pages and upload them onto a server.
Authors can create a document from scratch, they can browse the web and
find the information they need, copy and paste it to their pages, and
create links to other Web sites. All this is done in a straightforward
and simple manner, and actions are performed in a single consistent
environment. Editing and browsing functions are integrated seamlessly in
a single tool.
- Amaya maintains a consistent internal document model adhering to the
DTD
Amaya always represents the document internally in a structured way
consistent with the Document Type Definition (DTD). A properly structured
document enables other tools to further process the data safely.
Amaya allows you to display the document structure at the same time as
the formatted view, which is portrayed diagrammatically on the screen.
For more details, see Techniques
for Authoring Complex XML Documents (html,
pdf).
- Amaya is able to work on several documents at a time
Several (X)HTML, native MathML (.mml) and SVG (.svg) documents can be
displayed and edited at a time.
- Amaya helps authors create hypertext links
The editor helps you create and text out links to other documents on
the Web from the document you currently are working on. You can view the
links and get a feel for how the information is interconnected. This
feature is not limited to HTML anchors. With XLink, any MathML and SVG
element can be a link too.
- Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application
Annotations are external comments, notes, remarks that can be attached
to any Web document or a selected part of the document. This application
is based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer
recommendations.
- Amaya is easily extended.
Several APIs and mechanisms are available to change and extend its
functionality with the least modification to the source code.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 11.3-pre1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Amaya User Reviews (6 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 18 2008 |
HERVé 5 I'm surprised many comments seem to consider Amaya as just a browser, when it is a complete, non-proprietary, WYWIWYG html editor. Recently I had to prepare a quick how-to for a small community server and I wanted something else than iWeb: I dare say Amaya did it without even opening a single help file. I preseume it can do much more, but if what you want is an html editor that just behaves like a text editor (with links etc.), give it a try !
(Version 10.1pr5) | |
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| Feb 27 2008 |
BUMBLEB JAVA as it is implemented here, simple does not cut it on Mac OS X - we are too accustomed to Cocoa goodness;-)
(Version 10.0) | |
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| Jul 13 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Amaya may not look as good as some other browsers, but it's the only browser to really do things with link, Xpath... It's the playground for new W3C technologies.
(Version 9.2.1) | |
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| Jul 13 2005 |
ANONYMOUS and that's all it is. it's not really usable as an everyday browser
(Version 9.2.1) | |
| Jul 14 2005 |
AMAKE It's not just that it doesn't look as good. The fatal flaw for me is that it just can't display non-English characters correctly. That's not just an eyecandy issue, that's basic useability.
(Version 9.2.1) | |
| Feb 28 2007 |
ROBERT More like the litter box.
(Version 9.54) | |
| Oct 17 2008 |
GAOSHAN In its day Amaya had a useful purpose. Anymore, however, it seems extraneous.
(Version 10.1pr5) | |
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| Nov 1 2006 |
ORION MK. V Ugly, clunky and nonintuitive, so despite any novel/unique features it's just not particularly usable.
(Version 9.52) | |
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 | Jul 13 2005 |
AMAKE It's nice that the W3C decided to put Amaya out for OS X, but it has a long way to go before it becomes a decent browser. Gecko and KHTML are light years ahead of it in terms of rendering accuracy, and Amaya can't even display non-English scripts correctly (I specifically tested only Japanese). At this point it seems more like a curiosity than a fully functional browser, though perhaps its editing capabilities are more worthwhile.
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