Amaya (web browser)

Amaya is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (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.

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 1980s, 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 CSS editor, it was then expanded to include XML capabilities such as XHTML, MathML and SVG.

Amaya displays free and open image formats such as PNG and SVG, as well as a subset of SVG animation.

A test bed application

It is used today as a test-bed for new web technologies that are not yet supported in major browsers.

The browser is available to Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and other platforms.

The latest release is Amaya 10, which was released on February 26, 2008.

See also

• Arena (web browser)
• List of HTML editors
• Comparison of HTML editors
• Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors

External links

• Amaya Home Page (W3C)