Amaya 9.53 review
DownloadAmaya project is intended to be a comprehensive client environment for testing and evaluating new proposals for Web standards and for
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Amaya project is intended to be a comprehensive client environment for testing and evaluating new proposals for Web standards and formats.
A large part of the intended features of Amaya are implemented in this release, but some of them are not complete yet.
Here are some key features of "Amaya":
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.
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 in This Release:
New features
A new button to open the CSS editor which replaces style panels
A new file explorer panel
A large set of new mathematical constructions in the Maths panel (thanks to Frederic Wang)
New Maths shortcuts (thanks to Frederic Wang)
Bug fixes
Amaya crashed when new list-style-position and list-style-type CSS properties are added
On Windows platforms, Amaya 8.52 crashed when a help page is open
On Windows, the selection in the pull-down of Open document dialog generated an empty selection
On Linux platforms, the copy/paste between applications was not correctly supported
Change the communication method between Amaya instances
When a New document command is aborted, the next Open document was interpreted as a document creation
Amaya now accepts to insert tab characters in text files
When the last row or the last tbody is deleted, Amaya now deletes the table
Amaya had problems when creating a span that contains a span inside it
Amaya didn't allow one to make any link containing only an image
Amaya refused to create an Information Type element (e.g. ) within an empty
When a element is cut then pasted, its "xmlns" attribute was lost
Changing the doctype in a new created document, before writing any character in it, removed the body
Amaya now removes broken elements when saving
No XML declaration and are generated when the charset is unknown
Sometimes Amaya generated the MathML entity instead of the HTML entity, or the HTML entity instead of the MathML entity
Avoid to insert a newline within the content of an RCS instruction
Apply class doesn't add the class name if it is already present
Amaya didn't interpret correctly a border property without color value
Amaya didn't display background images attached to table cells
Fixing formatting bugs and crashes
Improving the management of spaces when the option "Keep multiple spaces" is set
Always keep spaces and lines within PI (useful for php files)
With large documents, the view was not updated after a Ctrl Home command
When a large document element is selected, pressing the down(up)-arrow key generated a scroll line by line until the bottom (top) of the element instead of a skip
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