- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:30:38 +0200
- To: www-amaya@w3.org, "Christopher Evans" <christopher@cechinatrans.demon.co.uk>
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:01:30 +0200, Christopher Evans <christopher@cechinatrans.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I agree with both the comments below, I agree that Amaya is a reasonably useful product (it's what I use to create documents, since I find HTML an incredibly useful, compact, portable and versatile format). > but would add that W3C, as the body which sets the standards for the > web, should have it's own publically available, dedicated editor to > demonstrate the full functionality of the web as designed, without > proprietary add-ons. That would be lovely. Unfortunately, I don't think W3C has the funding to make it possible - and there are other things I think are even more important. (I guess you would need a couple or three full-time people to do some development as well as maintenance of the code and the project). On the other hand Amaya has been open source for a long time. I personally don't believe that will make it a better project, or make people take it up, but given how often it has demonstrated smart ways to do standards-compliant WYSIWYG editing years before the competition I think it is a shame that so few people contribute to it. (Including me. I don't think much of what I did is still there at all - maybe some bits of documentation...) cheers Chaals > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:50:15 +0100, Cay Horstmann > <cay.horstmann@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Agreed. I am using Amaya every day right now for writing a textbook >> (using a microformat and PrinceXML as the backend). It has a tolerable >> "what you see is what you need" display and great keyboard shortcuts, >> but it also has stability issues that obviously aren't getting >> addressed. >> >> 2011/6/24 Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90@gmail.com>: >>> This is a concern to me. The project seemed to die when Irene Vatton >>> left it at the end of 2009. Fortunately Amaya had just become a useful >>> wsywig editor and validator at that time and I continue to use it >>> regularly. But it seems it will get so far behind its real purpose >>> that it will fade away. >>> >>> It has already been removed from the Ubuntu repositories. >>> >>> W3C should have made an announcement by now about whether there is any >>> expectation of continuing. >>> >>> On 6/24/11, Joe Webster <webster.joe@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Has development on Amaya stopped? The current release is dated Dec. >>>> 2009. I thought new versions were to be released approx. 3 times per >>>> year. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
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