http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/11/a-standard-compliant-web-browser-and-editor-amaya/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/11/a-standard-compliant-web-browser-and-editor-amaya/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:18:57 +0000 Joe http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14311 Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards.

Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with certain web browsers, which lack support for the latest tags or render pages wrong.

The W3C therefore has its own web browser and editor which adheres to standards more than many browsers and supports certain new technologies others don’t, such as RDF annotation. This browser is Amaya, an open-source and cross-platform browser.

Amaya can handle a wide-range of open file formats, including HTML, CSS, XHTML, SVG and MathML.

The software integrates the browser and web editor: when you go to a web page, it can be edited inside the browser. It also instantly displays syntactic errors.

It also integrates the mark-up languages. For example, in a web page, one can write formulae utilising MathML or add SVG shapes inside the software.

Amaya is a reasonable WYSIWYG editor and a good web browser for developmental purposes. It is also good to produce rich web-pages, which include other pieces of mark-up than HTML.

Tags: Amaya, html, html editor, Linux, mac, Open Source, w3c, web design, web designer, web development, Windows, wysiwyg, wysiwyg editor, xhtml, xml

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/11/a-standard-compliant-web-browser-and-editor-amaya/feed/ 2 http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/07/how-to-display-valid-markup-code-in-websites/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/07/how-to-display-valid-markup-code-in-websites/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 13:19:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=12644 There are two difficulties or problems that Internet users encounter when they want to paste code into forms to display these on the Internet. The first problem that can be encountered is that the website will interpret part or all of the code instead of displaying it. A basic example would be to display the html code needed to make text linkable on a website. These codes are interpreted by most forms automatically if the user just pastes the code into the form. The second problem that can arise is that the website will not validate because of the way it has been pasted into the form. Displaying the & char will for example return an error when validating the code. This can lead to all kinds of troubles including broken RSS feeds (read: The XML Feed Cannot Be Displayed).

Displaying valid markup code in websites, forums, blogs and any other page is not difficulty. The only thing that needs to be done to achieve this is to convert all entities before pasting the code. This can be done manually or by using a script like that offered at Spacefem.

All that needs to be done is to paste the code into the form and click on the Make Code button at the bottom. To display the following code on a website

<a href="http://www.ghacks.net/">Ghacks</a>

one would have to paste the following code into the form on the website where the code should be displayed

<a href="http://www.ghacks.net/">Ghacks</a>

This is actually the easiest way to ensure that the website will not interpret the code and that the code will be valid markup code.

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