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Amaya Changelog

What's new in Amaya 11.4.7

Jul 24, 2013
  • This snapshot contains a security fix for a problem with the libwww as, in some cases, user password could be sent in the clear through https. This problem concerns only people who use the PUT capability of Amaya over SSL.

New in Amaya 11.4.4 (Jan 20, 2012)

  • CSS counters are implemented. However, selectors for properties counter-reset and counter-increment are not fully interpreted yet, which may generate strange numbers sometimes.
  • There was a typo in the SVG doctype.
  • The 'Tip of the day' is now different at each launch.
  • Add F1: HelpIndex() in keyboard shortcuts.
  • Links that contained more than 200 characters were truncated.
  • Add text files (*.txt) in the list of 'known types' for file browser
  • CSS: Unicode characters in a "content" property were not interpreted correctly.
  • CSS: selectors for rules counter-increment and counter-reset were often not interpreted correctly.
Also, display these rules in the list of rules displayed by command Format/Show applied style...
  • CSS: when some style has just been put on a character string (which creates a element), command "Show applied style" did not display this new style.
  • CSS: setting the "color" property of a selected element after the "background-color" property produced inexpected results.
  • CSS: Amaya crashed when creating a table of contents that included elements using a page-break CSS rule.
  • MathML: update entity definitions for MathML (Frédéric Wang).
  • MathML: the content of element was not displayed correctly and could crash Amaya.
  • Element within an was moved by the HTML parser outside og the element.
  • When an XHTML document contains errors (such as invalid elements), Amaya does not try anymore to parse it again as a plain HTML document if it uses other namespaces with prefixes. The HTML parser does not accept prefixed tags.
  • : Amaya now accept to create elements without a data attribute.
It's also easier to change the alternate text of an .
  • Table editing: when changing setting an attribute on several (but not all) cells in a column, the attribute was applied to the column as a whole.
  • It was impossible to save large documents throught SSL on Windows and Linux. Add an option to define the socket buffer size in the libwww.
  • Some minor bug fixes.
  • Updating documentation.

New in Amaya 11.3.1 (Dec 9, 2009)

  • Amaya merged paragraphs when several paragraphs are selected and the user applies to it Strong, Emphasis or Code.
  • Sometimes after a element is inserted the selection was misplaced.
  • The caret at the end of a line is sometimes not displayed.
  • The markup within elements is now preserved.
  • Bold Italic fonts were not available on Windows platforms.
  • The $HOME variable in now ignored on Windows platforms.

New in Amaya 11.3 (Dec 2, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • The https protocol is now supported.
  • New version of the template editor: creation of XTiger libraries, components, imports, etc.
  • Automatic opening of the Structure view for template instances.
  • The vertical split opens the Structure view and the horizontal split opens the Source view.
  • A double click on an item of the List of style sheets tool opens the style sheet.
  • A new set of Amaya profiles: "Lite", "Lite+Web", "Lite+Web+CSS", "Lite+Web+CSS+Math_Graphics", "Advanced".
  • The Insert entity command now allows one to insert a unicode character into a HTML document.
  • A new command Undo close Tab in the Tab contextual menu.
  • The Tab and Shift Tab commands allow one to move down/up list items.
  • Bug fixes:
  • The link dialogue didn't allow one to insert relative links into a remote document.
  • Sometimes the focus in the link dialogue was lost.
  • Fix some rendering bugs and improve the CSS support.
  • Improve the edit of template instances: management of options and attributes and fix bugs.
  • The refresh of tool panels was too slow.
  • PNG images were not displayed on 64-bit platforms.
  • On Mac OSX, the ^ dead key behaved like if "enter" was pressed.
  • On Mac OSX 10.5, sometimes cached files of the libwww were stored into the "/" directory.
  • On Mac OS X platforms when scrolling, svg drawing moved up on the text.
  • The table of contents was not generated when the selection is not empty.
  • When the loaded file is ReadOnly, the Save As to another location didn't work.

New in Amaya 11.3 Pre 1 (Nov 18, 2009)

  • Now includes a SVG editor (for a subset of the language).
  • You can display and partially edit XML documents.
  • It's an internationalized application.
  • It provides an advanced user interface with contextual menus, a customizable set of menus and tools, predefined themes.

New in Amaya 11.2 (Jul 4, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • CSS: Support of z-index, opacity, SVG fill-rule, stop-opacity and stop-color properties.
  • SVG: Implementation of linear gradients, copy/paste of markers.
  • Amaya proposes now to keep a local copy of edited pages when the publishing fails.
  • Publishing: Resources can be saved with the document.
  • A new button allows one to lock/unlock WebDAV resources.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Move the selection into the structure view when the created is not visible in the formated view.
  • The Attributes panel is updated as soon as it is opened.
  • When a column of a table is selected, Attributes and Style panels apply to the element.
  • Keep options of the table creation dialog.
  • Improve the management of template instances: options, repeats, etc.
  • On Windows, local annotations were not correctly loaded.
  • On Mac OS X: Improve the management of libwww cached files.
  • The Code clean-up command now keeps style and lang attributes of , , , and elements.
  • Improve the rendering of floated boxes and background images.
  • Fix some redisplay problems.
  • SVG: When there are several elements, only the first could be selected.
  • SVG: When the element is centered, the position of new components was miscalculated.
  • SVG: Improve the creation of arrows.
  • Fix a crash on Windows version when the Tab key was used in a document that included a element.
  • The Type of the last created document was sometimes lost.
  • Improve the WebDAV support.
  • Etag and preconditions were always checked when a document was published.
  • Optimize the calculation of large tables and documents.
  • And other bug fixes.

New in Amaya 11.1 (Jan 31, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Text wrapping in the source view
  • Partial support of SVG markers (arrow heads are now drawn with markers)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix possible security holes CVE-2008-6005
  • Prevent a crash when the window, or a tab, or the application is closed and a dialog is opened
  • Display an empty window when the last tab of a window is closed
  • Allow to create a link to the document itself
  • Sometimes images were not loaded
  • Keep options of the Search/Replace command
  • Amaya ignored floated boxes within a table cell
  • Mac OS X: Sometimes the horizontal scroll bar was not displayed correctly
  • Mac OS X and Windows: Next element and Previous element keys were applied twice

New in Amaya 11.0 (Dec 16, 2008)

  • New Features:
  • Support of XHTML+RDFa documents. RDFa attributes are parsed and can be edited. Possibility to create XHTML+RDFa documents. A command to add/remove namespace declarations of a document. List of namespace declarations defined in the RDFa Preference.
  • Shift+wheel scrolls the document horizontally
  • Support direct resizing of images
  • Integration of Japanese dialogs thanks to Martin Dürst
  • XHTML, MathML, SVG, Template, and XML panels are now tabs of the Elements tool
  • Few new characters are proposed in the Special Characters tool
  • A Span menu item is now available in the menu Insert > Character Element
  • SVG editing (a subset of the language)
  • Template editing
  • the Crtl-Click command opens a link in a new tab (Unix and Windows)
  • The Reload command re-open the source or the structure view
  • New management of Help documentation
  • Improvement of template instances editing (Enter key, transformations, contextual menus)
  • A Tools > Code clean up command to clean up documents generated by most word processors
  • Bug fixes:
  • Improvement of the rendering engine
  • When the user selects in the structure view, the selection path was not displayed in the status bar
  • Sometimes images within a table were not displayed
  • CSS style sheets attached to an object were not applied
  • Close the help window when the user closes the last window document
  • The Save all command was active only when a edited document is displayed
  • Documents are now scrolled page by page
  • On Mac OS X the focus could be lost when a dialog is closed
  • On Mac OS X, Ctrl Enter didn't insert a
  • Improvement of MathML editing
  • It was impossible to extend the selection outside a table
  • elements were not copied/pasted
  • All attributes in MathML expressions were considered invalid
  • Interpretation of attributes attached to elements to fix alignment, background-color, and width
  • Display "Column" instead of "td" or "th" in the statusbar when the whole column is selected
  • A background image CSS property attached to any element (*) was not applied immediately
  • Improvement of XML document saving
  • On Mac OS X, the default charset was set to us-ascii by error
  • Amaya now uses the Content Location to save a remote document without suffix (instead of redirecting to the Save As dialog)
  • Amaya requested a confirmation each times the PUT is redirected
  • Amaya keeps "\windows-serversharenamefilename.html" URIs unchanged
  • When text typed causes image contents to be pushed (to the right) along with text, only part of the image was refreshed
  • In source view, , , and didn't work well.

New in Amaya 10.1 Pre 5 (Oct 17, 2008)

  • Improvement of the rendering engine.
  • When the user selects in the structure view, the selection path was not displayed in the status bar.
  • Sometimes images within a table were not displayed.
  • CSS style sheets attached to an object were not applied.
  • Close the help window when the user closes the last window document.
  • The Save all command was active only when a edited document is displayed.
  • Documents are now scrolled page by page.
  • On Mac OS X the focus could be lost when a dialog is closed.
  • On Mac OS X, Ctrl Enter didn't insert a .
  • Improvement of MathML editing.

New in Amaya 10.1 Pre 4 (Sep 6, 2008)

  • Improvement of the rendering engine
  • When the user selects in the structure view, the selection path was not displayed in the status bar
  • Sometimes images within a table were not displayed
  • CSS style sheets attached to an object were not applied
  • Close the help window when the user closes the last window document
  • The Save all command was active only when a edited document is displayed
  • Documents are now scrolled page by page
  • On Mac OS X the focus could be lost when a dialog is closed
  • On Mac OS X, Ctrl Enter didn't insert a
  • Improvement of MathML editing