- From: Cay Horstmann <cay.horstmann@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:51:27 -0800
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: Dominique Meełs <dominique@d-meeus.be>, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, Amaya list <www-amaya@w3.org>
Another thing that Amaya does phenomenally well is 1) the keyboard shortcuts 2) truth in cursor positioning I can type material into Amaya much faster than into BlueGriffon because I don't need to locate the mouse, and I have full control over where I am. In BlueGriffon, you can't put the cursor everywhere--it skips over tags. It valiantly tries to do the right thing, and when it can't or won't, my concentration is blown. I really wish it would continue. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:42:52 +0100, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> 2011/12/22 Dominique Meełs <dominique@d-meeus.be>: >>> >>> I am afraid the problems of Amaya are more serious than donate, or host >>> it at SourceForge or elsewhere. >> >> >> I agree. > > > Yeah, probably. :( > > >> It would be interesting to know what you and other users find it does >> _well_. Even if the Amaya project itself dies, it would be worth >> recording its successes in the hopes that other projects might >> incorporate them. > > > Indeed. > > 1. Make decent clean code without having to look at it (I remember when it > didn't *have* a source code viewer - that wasn't such a problem) > > 2. Editing styles by example, and then making them into rules > > 3. Have enough browsing ability to make links by point and click > > 4. Have a transformations capability for making macros (table of contents, > convert element X to element Y, ...) > > There are a few other neat tricks it has. Although I have switched to > BlueGriffon for HTML5 editing, (it also works for XHTML but I still use both > it and Amaya), it would be nice to see the Amaya project continue. It did > some very smart things with intuitive editing of structured formats... > > cheers > > Chaals > > -- > Charles 'chaals' McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group > je parle franēais -- hablo espańol -- jeg kan litt norsk > http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com >
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