Re: Current Support

I agree that Amaya is «an excellent work done by Laurent, Irene & 
others’ team».

It is not «the one and only truly WYSIWYG HTML editor». BlueGriffon is a 
very good modern true WYSIWYG HTML editor; Amaya was much more than 
that, editor + browser with special attention to the norms of the W3C et 
cetera, but as editor BlueGriffon does the job nicely.

HTML is somewhat structured but not completely and it has never been. 
For example, there are no subdivisions: a clever human being might guess 
that what comes under a h2 is a subdivision of a certain level until the 
next h2 (like in a book, a real —paper— book, a subdivision is supposed 
to go from a title to the next looking more or less of the same level), 
but there is no tagging of the subdivision as such. You may use a div 
for such a subdivision, but it is not compulsory and indeed unusual in 
HTML. This makes HTML in a way a paradigm of unstructured documents! If 
you think structured documents you have to write in DocBook for 
technical documents, better in TEI 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative) for general 
documents (afterwards converting the XML to HTML, PDF of whatever if 
needed). (I have been a user of Amaya, but today I write all important 
parts of my website in TEI first.)

-- 

Dominique Meeùs.

Juan Lanus a écrit le 09/01/2017 à 14:07 :
> Amaya is an excellent HTML editor.
> It is the one and only truly WYSIWYG HTML editor in the whole world.
>
> I still use it in Ubuntu ans Windows, years after developed has 
> stopped. It has a number of details but it still does its work.
> I use it for all my text processing.
> The main issue is that it doesn't handle the newer HTML5 tags.
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> I crave for an open source project to port it to JS and tu be able to 
> run it as a browser plugin or a nodejs application.
>
> Amaya brings up the concept of "structured document", which IMO is the 
> original idea behind HTML 1. All editors let you write structured 
> docs, Amaya actively helps you to do so.
> A structured document is waaay better than a (done with MSWord) one. 
> For example, in that you can automatically build a significant TOC out 
> of the HTML4 headesr set.
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> It was an excellent work done by Laurent, Irene & others' team.
> -- 
> Juan Lanus
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Laurent Carcone <laurent@w3.org 
> <mailto:laurent@w3.org>> wrote:
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>     Hello Peter,
>
>     Thank you for your interest in Amaya.
>     Unfortunately, the projet is no longer maintained due to lack of
>     resources.
>     We put the source code in github if anyone is interested in doing
>     new developments [1].
>
>     Best Regards,
>     Laurent Carcone
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>     [1] https://github.com/w3c/Amaya-Editor
>     <https://github.com/w3c/Amaya-Editor>
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>     Le 27/12/16 à 09:28, Peter Shikli a écrit :
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>         Reading over the documentation, Amaya sounds like the kind of
>         website editor we are looking for, hopefully because it
>         conforms to W3C's own ATAG spec for accessibility for the
>         blind.  But I see mail list communications seeming to have
>         stopped.  Has Amaya been abandoned?
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>         Can we get user support, perhaps on a fee basis?
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>         Sincerely,
>         Peter Shikli
>         Bizware Online Applications, Inc.
>         San Clemente, CA 92674
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