Welcome to Amaya

W3C's Editor/Browser

Amaya is 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 - Open Source

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.

A public irc channel #amaya is available on irc.w3.org (port 6665).

Amaya Team

The application is jointly developed by W3C and the WAM (Web, Adaptation and Multimedia) project at INRIA. The core team includes: Irène Vatton (Project lead, INRIA), Laurent Carcone (W3C), Emilien Kia (INRIA), Vincent Quint (INRIA).

Translations

Submitted translations of Amaya pages :

Current Release

Amaya screenshot

The Amaya 10 release is available (since 29 February 2008). The major changes are a contextual menu, a customized user interface (see Preferences to change it), Amaya themes, and a new style panel to style documents.It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features, and includes SVG support (transformation, transparency, and SMIL animation). You can display and partially edit XML documents. It's an internationalized application.

Distributions are available for Linux, Windows and now MacOS X PowerPC and Intel (see screenshot).

This version includes a template support partly funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission as part of the Palette project.

New A snapshot Amaya 10.1-pre5 is now available (17 October 2008).

See the Overview page for more details.

Road map

Better CSS support (rendering and new properties)

Creation and editing of templates

Possibility to template any XML language

Support of RDFa in XHTML

Improvement of MathML editing

Direct image and table resizing

Support of document upload

SVG editing

Amaya is covered by the W3C Software Notice and License. The icon W3C-Amaya can be inserted in your Web pages when they are created and edited by Amaya.

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