Amaya originated as a direct descendant of the Grif WYSIWYG[REF] SGML editor created by Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton at INRIA in the early 1980s,[REF] and of the HTML editor Symposia, itself based on Grif, both developed and sold by French software company Grif SA.
Originally designed as a structured text editor (predating SGML) and later as an HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) editor, it was then expanded to include XML-based capabilities such as XHTML,[REF] MathML[REF] and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) [REF].