Integrated W3C Technologies in Amaya

WWW2002 Conference - Honolulu May 10, 2002

Amaya

A full-featured Web client:

• Browser
• Editor: "WYSIWYG" and multi-views
• Direct access to Web servers (get/put)
• Support of many W3C technologies

Focus on integrating modes and technologies

Supported Technologies

• Web access: HTTP 1.1 (libwww), ftp
• Web pages: HTML, XHTML (XML in progress)
• Vector Graphics: SVG
• Mathematics: MathML
• Style sheets: CSS
• Annotations: RDF, XPointer, XPath
• Accessibility: WAI guidelines
• Internationalization: Unicode

Integration

• Uniform representation of text: Unicode

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• Uniform representation of structures: XML, namespaces

  $x=\frac{-b\pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$

• Uniform representation of hypertext links (XLink)
• All editing commands apply to the whole structure

XHTML

• All HTML 4 and XHTML profiles - conversions
• WYSIWYG structure editing
• Structure transformation (ex. list -> table)
• Direct creation of hypertext links

Demo

MathML

MathML presentation mark-up is fully supported

• Automatic creation of mandatory elements
• Automatic structuring
• Structure transformation
• Structural Copy/Paste

Demo

SVG

Implementation in progress

Integration of drawings within documents

Style - CSS

CSS style sheets apply to all XML elements:

• XHTML
• SVG
• MathML

Example : without CSS, with CSS

Demo

Internationalization

Implementation in progress

• xml:lang attribute - spell-checking, word hyphenation
• Formatting RTL and LTR
• Ruby (XHTML 1.1): 10312002Mon.DayYearExpiration Date
• SVG : switch and systemLanguage, direction and unicode-bidi

Examples : Arabic, Hebrew

Shared Annotations

• Annotea allows one to annotate any Web resource with an URI
• Shared annotations, without modification of the annotated document
• Use RDF, XPointer (XPath), XLink, HTTP 1.1

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<r:RDF xmlns:r="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/annotation-ns#"
xmlns:d="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.0/">
<r:Description>
<r:type resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/annotation-ns#Annotation" />
<r:type resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/annotationType#Comment" />
<a:annotates r:resource="file:///home/vatton/Talks/inria-semweb/all.htm" />
<a:context>#xpointer(/html[1]/body[1]/ul[5]/li[4]/a[1])</a:context>
<d:creator>Vatton</d:creator>
<a:created>2001-01-22T16:32:41</a:created>
<d:date>2001-01-22T16:33:00</d:date>
<a:body r:resource="file:///home/vatton/.amaya/annotations/annotuxNjLz.html" />
</r:Description>
</r:RDF>

Availability

Open source

• Open CVS base: http://dev.w3.org

Binary Distributions:

• Windows: 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP
• Unix: Linux (Debian packages, RPM), Solaris
• Mac OS-X (Fink)

Conclusion

Amaya provides an environment for testing new Web technologies

These technologies are designed to be combined

For more information : http://www.w3.org/Amaya/