Re: Current Support

Hi,

Amaya was created by Vincent Quint and Irene Vatton !

Here is the list of developers and contributors:
https://www.w3.org/Amaya/Actors.html

Thank you all for your contribution and participation over the years

Laurent


Le 09/01/17 à 16:04, Dominique Meeùs a écrit :
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> I agree that Amaya is «an excellent work done by Laurent, Irene & 
> others’ team».
>
> It is not «the one and only truly WYSIWYG HTML editor». BlueGriffon is 
> a very good modern true WYSIWYG HTML editor; Amaya was much more than 
> that, editor + browser with special attention to the norms of the W3C 
> et cetera, but as editor BlueGriffon does the job nicely.
>
> HTML is somewhat structured but not completely and it has never been. 
> For example, there are no subdivisions: a clever human being might 
> guess that what comes under a h2 is a subdivision of a certain level 
> until the next h2 (like in a book, a real —paper— book, a subdivision 
> is supposed to go from a title to the next looking more or less of the 
> same level), but there is no tagging of the subdivision as such. You 
> may use a div for such a subdivision, but it is not compulsory and 
> indeed unusual in HTML. This makes HTML in a way a paradigm of 
> unstructured documents! If you think structured documents you have to 
> write in DocBook for technical documents, better in TEI 
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative) for general 
> documents (afterwards converting the XML to HTML, PDF of whatever if 
> needed). (I have been a user of Amaya, but today I write all important 
> parts of my website in TEI first.)
>
> -- 
>
> Dominique Meeùs.
>
> Juan Lanus a écrit le 09/01/2017 à 14:07 :
>> Amaya is an excellent HTML editor.
>> It is the one and only truly WYSIWYG HTML editor in the whole world.
>>
>> I still use it in Ubuntu ans Windows, years after developed has 
>> stopped. It has a number of details but it still does its work.
>> I use it for all my text processing.
>> The main issue is that it doesn't handle the newer HTML5 tags.
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>> I crave for an open source project to port it to JS and tu be able to 
>> run it as a browser plugin or a nodejs application.
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>> Amaya brings up the concept of "structured document", which IMO is 
>> the original idea behind HTML 1. All editors let you write structured 
>> docs, Amaya actively helps you to do so.
>> A structured document is waaay better than a (done with MSWord) one. 
>> For example, in that you can automatically build a significant TOC 
>> out of the HTML4 headesr set.
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>> It was an excellent work done by Laurent, Irene & others' team.
>> -- 
>> Juan Lanus
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>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Laurent Carcone <laurent@w3.org 
>> <mailto:laurent@w3.org>> wrote:
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>>     Hello Peter,
>>
>>     Thank you for your interest in Amaya.
>>     Unfortunately, the projet is no longer maintained due to lack of
>>     resources.
>>     We put the source code in github if anyone is interested in doing
>>     new developments [1].
>>
>>     Best Regards,
>>     Laurent Carcone
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>>     [1] https://github.com/w3c/Amaya-Editor
>>     <https://github.com/w3c/Amaya-Editor>
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>>     Le 27/12/16 à 09:28, Peter Shikli a écrit :
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>>         Reading over the documentation, Amaya sounds like the kind of
>>         website editor we are looking for, hopefully because it
>>         conforms to W3C's own ATAG spec for accessibility for the
>>         blind.  But I see mail list communications seeming to have
>>         stopped.  Has Amaya been abandoned?
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>>         Can we get user support, perhaps on a fee basis?
>>
>>         Sincerely,
>>         Peter Shikli
>>         Bizware Online Applications, Inc.
>>         San Clemente, CA 92674
>>         949-369-1638 - pshikli@bizware.com <mailto:pshikli@bizware.com>
>>         Cell: 949-677-3705
>>         FAX: 213-337-7029
>>         www.bizware.com <http://www.bizware.com>
>>         Automating Online Business Communities
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