It’s been over a year since the W3C released a new version of its Amaya prototype XHTML editor. This is not good. I’d go so far as to call it ++ungood. With apologies to Daniel Glazman and the many people who’ve worked on Composer-based tools, I’ve long preferred and used Amaya when it comes to writing HTML these days. It’s had support for MathML and SVG forever, and its UI provides a lot of power without being in the way. Oh, and it works on Windows, Linux and Macintosh… kind of like another code base I also love…
I realize Mozilla’s probably in no position to fund Amaya development, and I don’t believe they should. I’m posting this to call attention to this project I find extremely useful, and inspirational (for Verbosio, my XML editor project). Maybe someone out there among the W3C members or the global software community can help out a bit.
Code-wise, the first step is probably to fork their CVS repo into a modern DVCS. After that someone could replace the renderer with WebKit and update the editor with support for HTML5.
It would be ideal if the W3C was a mentoring organization for GSOC next year and I was one of its students, working on Amaya, but I’m not certain who to talk to in order to accomplish that. Suggestions?
Side note: The apostrophes on your blog (e.g. “Mozilla’s”) have large gaps after them in Windows 7, apparently due to “Microsoft YaHei” being designed for displaying Chinese and not English; could you change the font to something else?
Thanks for the font hint! That was driving me absolutely crazy.
You know I worked on the rendering engine of Grif, the ancestor of Amaya, right?
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grif