Some feedback on Amaya 1.4 (unsorted), created during a fairly typical editing session. This is feedback on the user interface as well as the functionalities, from a fairly sophisticated user with rather deep HTML knowledge, but hardly any knowledge in programming (normal project manager type).

I was using an IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 1/200 with 64 MB RAM and 3 GB HD, Windows 95 4.00.950 B and Microsoft TCP/IP networking over a 3Com Ethernet PCMCIA card in the MIT network, simultaneously with Netscape 4.01, Eudora 4.1, F-Secure SSH 1.1, Dr. Solomon WinGuard, and the Ericsson screen saver (Quicktime); none of the concurrent applications appear to interfere with Amaya.

These comments were generated during a session editing several document which were generated using AOL Press; simultaneously, this document was generated from scratch.

• Does not follow Windows UI guidelines (most flagrant example: Does not allow selection of text by using arrow- and shift key; pressing control and arrow simultaneously does not walk words, only letters)

• No menu item (nor button) for "normal text" or "remove markup" (as in AOL Press)
• When saving a file, you have to explicitly write ".html" in the file name, otherwise it gets saved without file type
• "Print" button in the button bar is not functional, you have to use the menu selection.
• As a matter of fact, printing does not seem to work at all. Selecting "print" in the "File" menu takes you to a funny little window, you select that, it goes to the standard Windows Print window, you press OK, the window goes away, and nothing happens. No document, no error message. When you do the same thing in Netscape, it opens the "Printing Status" window and prints the document.
• Action button names are non-standard ("confirm" instead of "OK", for instance)
• There is no "show HTML" window (like in AOL Press) which would have been nice.
• That list bullets do not appear until you press the return button a second time is a little annoying, but may actually be useful.
• The title does not get stored when you write it in the title line, and press ctrl-s (or select "save" from the file menu).
• It is not obvious how you insert content into a metavariable (if you, like me, forgot to do it and pressed "confirm" in the Attribute window).
• When restoring backed up documents after a crash, it only restores the one that was active when it crashed, although you may have had several open.
• When you inadvertently type something into a link, there is no obvious way to select the text and remove the link from that part.
• When you select "Heading" from the "Types" menu and select headings higher than H3, you still only get H3. And of course, there is no button in the button bar for headings higher than H3.
• (this one was really weird) When you add a letter in the beginning of a sentence in the structure window, it shows up at the end of that sentence in the page view window.
• ctrl-z (Undo) does not work
• Scrolling with the up- and down- arrows sometimes hangs for no apparent reason (or maybe you only can scroll inside the window, not scroll text into the window - which you can with the mouse)
• When you press Escape, after having selected something, Aamya does not cancel the selection, it extends it to the entire paragraph (and then to the entire document).

• If you have selected something, and then select Create Link, there is no apparent way of breaking off this operation (this is where I pressed Esc).

• It is not intuitional that the command both to delete links and anchors is Delete anchor (in the Link menu).
• The window for creation of links (that appears when you open Create Link in the Links menu) is not scoped to the application, but floats around other applications as well.
• There is no Insert Row or Insert Column selection in any of the menues, if you want to edit a table. Although Cut&Paste seems to work.

Apart from that, it is getting there. And Tim is right: It does crash less often now, although it did so when I tried to insert a <p> in a comment in the header....