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Amaya

Amaya
Maintainer: W3C, INRIA
Stable release: 9.54  (February 13, 2007) [+/-]
Preview release: none  (n/a) [+/-]
OS: Cross-platform
Use: Web browser
License: W3C
Website: www.w3.org/Amaya/

Amaya is a free and open source web browser and authoring tool created by a structured editor project at INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Screenshot of Amaya web browser. ... In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... It has been suggested that W3C Markup Validation Service be merged into this article or section. ... The Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... It has been suggested that Maintenance OS be merged into this article or section. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... W3C Software Notice and License is an Open Source licence used by software released by W3C, like Amaya. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Clockwise from top: The logo of the GNU Project (the GNU head), the Linux kernel mascot Tux the Penguin, and the FreeBSD daemon Free software is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation[1] to refer to software that can be used, studied, and modified without... ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... An authoring tool is a software package which developers use to create and package content deliverable to end users. ... The Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. ... It has been suggested that W3C Markup Validation Service be merged into this article or section. ... A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise maintaining standards that address the interests of a wide base of... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ...

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Codebase Timeline

Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in the early 80's, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on Grif, both developed and sold by French software company Grif SA. WYSIWYG (IPA Pronunciation [] or []), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. ... The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. ...


Originally designed as a structured text editor (predating SGML) and later as an HTML and CSS editor, it was then expanded to include XML capabilities such as XHTML, MathML and SVG. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax. ... Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is an application of XML for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. ... Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML specification and file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ...


Amaya displays free and open image formats such as PNG and SVG, as well as a subset of SVG animation. A free file format is a file format that is free of any patents or copyright. ... An open format is a published specification for storing digital data, usually maintained by a non-proprietary standards organization, and free of legal restrictions on use. ... See also Category:Graphics file formats Here is a summary of the most common graphics file formats: Some file formats, e. ... PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. ... SVG is also the IATA code for Stavanger Airport, Sola in Norway. ...


A Test bed application

It is used today as a test-bed for new web technologies that are not yet supported in major browsers. However, being developed by the W3C primarily as a testbed, rather than as reference software, this combination of a browser and editor has poor CSS and SVG support, as shown in the screenshot of the Wikipedia Main page shows. The acronym CSS may mean: Cansei de Ser Sexy a Brazilian musical group Cascading Style Sheets, a stylesheet language Central Security Service, an agency of the United States government, created to promote partnership between the NSA and the SCE Content Scramble System, a Digital Rights Management method used on some... Image File history File links Screenshot of Amaya web browser. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ...


The browser is available to Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and other platforms. Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... Windows redirects here. ... Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...


The latest release is Amaya 9.55, which was released on July 10, 2007. is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...


Known bugs

Amaya 9.54 may not run on many Windows XP systems for unknown reasons. As of 9.55, Amaya can not be installed on Windows Vista. Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...


Amaya does not support any embedded crash detection applications like TalkBack used on most Mozilla codebase web browsers like FireFox. Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, nowadays called SeaMonkey suite. ... Firefox may refer to: Firefox (novel), written by Craig Thomas, published in 1978 Firefox (film), the 1982 movie starring Clint Eastwood, based on the novel Firefox (arcade game), the laserdisc arcade game based on the movie Mozilla Firefox, a web browser The Red Fox or the Red Panda, based on...


See also

Free software Portal

Related technologies Image File history File links Portal. ...

Arena is a web browser developed by the W3C for testing support for HTML 3 and Cascading Style Sheets. ... The following is a list of web browsers. ... The following is a list of HTML editors with articles in Wikipedia. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of web browsers. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of (purportedly) WYSIWYG HTML editors. ...

External links

Official websites


  Results from FactBites:
 
Amaya (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (209 words)
Amaya is an open source web browser and authoring tool created by the W3C and INRIA.
Amaya is a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in early 80's, and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on Grif, both developed and sold by french software company Grif SA.
Amaya displays open image formats such as PNG and SVG, as well as a subset of SVG animation.
Arena (web browser) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (142 words)
Arena is a web browser developed by the W3C for testing support for HTML 3 and Cascading Style Sheets.
The W3C halted work on the Arena browser, and switched to the Amaya browser as their new testbed.
Despite its time of development, Arena is in certain areas a relatively modern browser; because it functioned as a testbed, it saw the implementation of new technologies long before they became mainstream.
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