Amaya

Good Morning
My name is James Walker.  I would like to become involved with the creation of your package. I am using a personnel built P4 computer with an IBM CPU and Windows 2000 server software with any and all updates from Microsoft. I am using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition for my development environment.

After several attempts I got the amay-fullsrc-9.2.1.tga package dated 1/22/2005 to compile and execute.  The first thing I notice is that the top header bar says "Welcome to Amaya 8.8 and the about says Amaya - 8.8 Sep 6 2005, (I am guessing the Sep 6 is the compile date) and the home page says Amaya 9.2.

I also downloaded Amaya package from the web which is 9.2.1. This package has a few major problems. 
1) I keep getting memory errors trying to create inline frames. Normally these type of errors are from sending a text string to a variable that is not big enough to hold the string.  I notice that in 8.8 the inline frame is turned off. (Depends on the type of document? )
2) When Amaya abort there is no prompt it just quits. Try inserting fames. I noticed in the code a function that say frames need to be developed.


Amaya 8.8 comments
1) http://validator.w3.org/ the input box does not work correctly. Or in 9.2.1, try http://www.thescentofcedar.net/default.htm  the string exceeds the length of the input box and instead of it scrolling behind or inside of the box it overwrites the check box that you push to validate the page. This works correctly in IE.

Questions: 
1) Why the difference in the File-> New document menus between 8.8 and 9.2? Is is not better to give the creator a choice of what they are creating?
2) Why does my site not work http://www.thescentofcedar.net/ in Amaya? I'll work on this one.
3) Why do frames not work at all in Amaya?  Even your example does not work http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html

What I do like.
1) The tabs for the different pages in 9.2.1 are a good thing.
2) Amaya knows it's previous session failed. Why does is not catch the failure and not abort? There are no entries in the event log except the memory errors.

Suggestions. Separate the editor and the browser into different packages.  Make the browser more forgiving. 
I cannot find a validator button in the GUI. 

Please let me know if you would like me to asset in this project.  I have many more questions, most I will have to do research into the specifications of HTML.

Thank You
James Walker

 

Received on Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:22:31 UTC