05 Jul 4705 - Amaya Boree or What?

Finally ran into a streak of work that I can't get out of.

Amaya is a tool that I had mentioned to someone that I wanted to make myself or find if it existed. It is a combination browser and editor, the idea being that you use the browser like any (I suggest Firefox), and then make changes in the same panel and upload your junk (that is if it is your site. This could save a lot of steps, especially if the program has all the right protocol and all. Dreamweaver does this badly. Nvu does this badly. I think you can make Frontpage do this, but probably also badly. Amaya is built to do it.
Usually I'm skeptical of programs that try to do everything for you (I'm looking at you again, Dreamweaver). This one could be alright.

Could.

If I could get past the parts of the introductory documentation that describe the uses of various shortcut keys in various contexts, or which charsets are supported and which are defaults, or how to make supported accentual characters without using alt codes (or rather, using their alt codes in addition to the standard set, odd).
I knew that it would be a dull read, but this manual borders the egregious. It doesn't help that my project is exploratory and therefore open-ended. Do what you want with it...so first learn everything, right? Maybe if I had dot-hack playing in the background and I were sleep-deprived I could induce a coma for real, but the difficulty of taking it all in at once may make me more attentive. It is a science experiment I shall have to try.

Ordinarily a lecture-giver will find the pace that is right for the audience; speed things up if everyone is bored. This manual, though, as I read it, seems unsafe at any speed.

I can't wait to have lunch.

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