Amaya, GREAT IDEA, but...

I heard about a new version of this software from a friend and in my quest to find a well functioning website editor for scouting units, I decided to give it a test drive. Amaya is a Web editor used to create and update documents directly on the Web. This is a GREAT idea and here is what I found:

Version Evaluated: Amaya 9.53 (12 December 2006)
Supported Platforms: Linux, Windows and MacOS X PowerPC and Intel
File Size: 5.5 MB
Manufacturer: W3C
Cost: $0, open source

Description: Amaya is an open source software project hosted by W3C. Amaya is a Web editor used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features, and includes SVG support (transformation, transparency, and SMIL animation). You can display and partially edit XML documents.

Evaluation: The browser was easy on install and open. My experience with this software was not good. It does not work well as a browser. I found the software to be awkward and non-intuitive. It does not work as well as IE or Foxfire. As for editing features, I found them to work fairly well, but the browser portion made the pages display poorly when working with a document.

Summary: This software may have been ten years in the making, but it needs more work before it is ready for primetime.

Scouters avoid this software until a new version is available.