- From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:52:52 -0400
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:07:01 +0100 Etienne Saliez <etienne@saliez.be> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the Open Source community we absolutely need > a good HTML editor as AMAYA and at the moment I > do not see any better solution. > > I have a lot of HTML documents to edit and it > would be very annoying to have to do it by > means of a basic text editor. > > Before using Amaya, I did use KOMPOZER which is > today no more maintained and which is not > optimal about W3C standards, although still > accepted by Firefox. > > >From a technical point of view I would not be > >able to contribute, but I am willing to > pledge some donations. > > - Indeed HTML5 is becoming important and must > be implemented. > > - Moreover a few other improvements like the > graphic interface for the management of tables > which should be made as good as it was in > Kompozer. > > - No more much concern, but I did not succeed > to install AMAYA on 32 bit machine in a KUBUNTU > environment. > > > Etienne Saliez > > tel +32_26541759 > > http://www.isfteh.org/working_groups/category/collaborative_care_team_in_open_so > urce[1] > > > > > > On Wednesday 19 March 2014 19:24:36 Martin J. > Dürst wrote: > > Hello Antoine, > > > > On 2014/03/19 18:21, HiddenId wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > If you like using AMAYA as I Iike it, > > > shouldn't we try to relaunch its long term > > > development, particularly, making AMAYA > > > running better with current and future > > > version of web browsers ? > > > > > > For sure, we know that neither W3C nor WAM > > > INRIA deploy resource for AMAYA any more. > > > As specified on AMAYA home web page "the > > > application was jointly developed by W3C > > > and the WAM project (Web, Adaptation and > > > Multimedia) at INRIA. It is no more > > > developed." However, if many of us email to > > > W3C and INRIA decision makers, our > > > encouragements to decide to maintain AMAYA > > > as a permanent project to develop, should > > > this have an positive impact for > > > relaunching the project with permanent > > > allocated resources ? Would this help to > > > relaunch AMAYA development ? Freely, Antoine > > > > Sorry to not be of much help, but please let > > me explain the situation as far as I > > understand (as a former member of the W3C > > team). > > > > I like Amaya very much, too, and would be > > really delighted if development would > > continue (restart). A student of mine about a > > year ago also worked on adding HTML5 support > > to Amaya, her code is available at > > https://github.com/ezura/Amaya/. There also > > seem to have been others working on the code, > > see https://github.com/w3c/Amaya/network or > > search for 'Amaya' on github. > > > > However, unfortunately, it's not just that > > the Amaya project at INRIA is closed, but > > that its main developers and backers are > > retired. So there's nobody at INRIA in a > > position to push Amaya development. Also, > > INRIA being a research institution, simply > > adapting Amaya to newer browsers may not be > > such an attractive project. > > > > Anybody is of course very welcome to continue > > to work on Amaya, because it's all open > > source! > > > > Regards, Martin. > > > -------- > [1] > http://www.isfteh.org/working_groups/category/collaborative_care_team_in_open_so > urce I use a regular editor,Gvim. But Bluefish is a good option IMO. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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