The Amaya project started in 1996. It was carried out and financed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and organization whose primary goal is maintaining and developing international web standards. W3C wanted to present the true potential of the Web as well as to show the modern web technologies all put in a single well-equipped web client. From this investment of money, time and effort the Amaya browser was born, an application not only unique at the time it was created, but also constantly enhanced and developed today.

At first Amaya was simply a HTML + CSS editor, that you could easily use to create a website of your own, no matter if it was just a single page advertising your real estate business or a more complex financial site. As the development of Amaya progressed support for XML and numerous XML applications (for example those from groups XHTML, MathML and SVG) were added.

The current version of Amaya is much more than just a web browser. It’s a powerful tool with versatile and universal editing features available. It is possible to edit all kinds of HTML document as well as style sheets and XML files. Due to their growing popularity SVG images are also supported.