Last Updated on: 7th December 2023, 05:30 pm
Web site: w3.org/Amaya/
Category: Office
Subcategory: HTML Editors
Platform: Linux, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows
License: W3C Software License
Interface: GUI
First release: 1996
Amaya – a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.
Work on Amaya started at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies in a fully-featured Web client. The main motivation for developing Amaya was to provide a framework that can integrate as many W3C technologies as possible. It is used to demonstrate these technologies in action while taking advantage of their combination in a single, consistent environment.
Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.
Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer. Visit the Annotea project home page.
Amaya is an open source software project hosted by W3C. You are invited to contribute in many forms (documentation, translation, writing code, fixing bugs, porting to other platforms…). The Amaya software is written in C and is available for Windows, Unix platforms and MacOS X.
Amaya is intended to be a comprehensive environment for testing and evaluating new proposals for Web standards and formats. The first version of
this testbed was released in April 1996.
