Browsing with Amaya

Amaya behaves like many other Web browsers, except for activating links and displaying anchors.

Activating a link

Links are usually displayed in blue (or underlined on monochrome displays and on paper). As Amaya is an editor, a single click just moves the insertion point. Thus, to activate a link, you must double click on it.

The document retrieved by this operation normally replaces the current document in the same window. However, if the current document has been modified and has not been saved yet, another window is created for the new document, to avoid the loss of last changes.

Target anchors

Some pieces of text are displayed in green, even if no particular style is specified. These elements are target anchors, i.e. anchors with a name attribute that identifies the element as a possible target for a link. The color green is intended to make the creation of links easier. As you can quickly recognize the possible target of a link, you can create links faster.

Opening documents

You can open local or remote documents in several different ways:

Open commands from File menu: Two commands, Open Document and Open in New Window, allow you to open a new document in the same window or in a new window respectively. Both commands bring up a dialog box where you can enter either a local file name or an URL. The dialog box also contains a file browser that helps you to locate local files.
When the document is correctly specified, click on the Confirm button.
"Address" area: This area displays the file name or the URL of the current document. You can edit it to specify a different (local or remote) document to be displayed in the same window. Press the Enter key when the curso is in this area to actually load the document.
Following links: Double-click on a link to get the corresponding document.

Moving backward and forward

Two buttons: and allow you to go back to the previous page or forward to the next one.