Amaya browser

This page was last updated at: May 5, 2026

Amaya was a lightweight Desktop web browser, across a variety of operating systems. It was developed by W3C, INRIA. It was developed for about 16 years before being discontinued.

Amaya is a discontinued free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities.

About Amaya

Browser URL www.w3.org/Amaya/
Browser made by W3C, INRIA
Development Status Discontinued
The developers have announced that the browser won't be developed any more
Launched 1996
Discontinued 2012
Operating Systems Unix-like, Windows, OS X, NeXTSTEP
Device platform Desktop
Rendering Engine Custom
Lightweight Browser Amaya omits some mainstream features in order to reduce system resource & memory usage.
Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_(web_editor)
Download Archived downloads of Amaya for NeXTSTEP

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