Amaya - WYSIWYG

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From: "James McDonald" <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>
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Subject: Amaya - WYSIWYG
Date: Wed Sep 20 2006 00:24:30 GMT-0500 (CDT)
> Just been having a look at amaya the w3c.org WYSIWYG web editor.
>
> I have been using NVU but the project seems to have done one release in
> June 05 and no more updates or bugfixes since.
>
> Amaya is interesting it has some very cool view capabilities.
>
> I selected view structure and then click on say a `p'  element then all
> the sub-attributes are available in a list in a pane on the left of the
> window. Say you want to remove the msoNormal class applied to an element
> e.g. <p class="msoNormal"> you just select the p element in the structure
> view and then uncheck the class check box... and it's no longer there...
> Lovely.
>
> If you select an item on the webpage you are editing then Style ==> Show
> applied style it comes up with a list of all the associated css entries
> and their location. A simple double click takes you to the spot in the css
> file so you can then change/edit it.
>
> Now I'm just hoping that it doesn't core dump or exit too often and I may
> be using it as my WYSIWYG html editor of choice.



    I had been using NVU and SeaMonkey/Mozilla/Netscape Composer but
needed a cross-platform WYSIWYG editor capable of XHTML 1.0 at least and
preferably XHTML 1.1 do deploy to users.
    I corresponded with some of the SeaMonkey developers, think it was
back in April.  They said NVU and SeaMonkey are in the process of
merging all their work and there were no definite plans but maybe
something in about a year (
http://groups.google.org/group/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/browse_thread/thread/7db1ac23a808ef68/b04784397bdd1953?fwc=1
).

    As a result, I started playing with Amaya as well and think it's the
best WYSIWYG editor I've ever used.


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