[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request
On Sep 11, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote: Well, I'm not a web designer, but I did work with few of them, and it seems to me that you either create a table design in two hours or spend three days trying to create a CSS one and THEN create a table design in two hours. That's an exaggeration. It's widely accepted than tables can straightforwardly be dropped in most cases. They are intented to be used to present tabular datas, NOT for layout. (This ideas is not new, Zeldman talked about it in 2001) It does require a bit of CSS-Fu, however, as CSS support in browsers varies... But hey, you've got to occupy these HTML-CSS guys ! Emmanuel___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request
manu wrote: On Sep 11, 2007, Simon Marlow wrote: Please, please, someone do this for me. I tried, and failed, to get the layout right for the contents list in all browsers at the same time. The semantics of CSS is beyond my comprehension. Cheers, Simon Hi Simon, On the page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html, you only need tables to display the foldable lists of modules (HTML tables were commonly used to display many things on a same line), but they can be replaced by nested lists with a bit of CSS : Check this page out : http://la.di.da.free.fr/haddock/ I can help further, if need be. I see the idea, but it looks like you're just right-aligning the package names, which will look strange when there are different package names. (but perhaps not as strange as it currently looks). In any case, I'd welcome a patch to Haddock that improves things. Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request
Sven Panne wrote: 2. Could we make is so all items are collapsed initially? (Currently they're all expended initially - which makes it take rather a long time to find anything.) Again this depends on the use case: I'd vote strongly against collapsing the list initially, because that way the incremental search in Firefox won't work without un-collapsing everything. This is exactly why the list is expanded by default. At first I made it default to collapsed, and people complained (possibly Sven, in fact :-). When the index is generated with a more recent Haddock, you get a search field, which does an incremental search, so this might perhaps be more what you are looking for. A more aesthetical note: We should really get rid of the ugly table/CSS layout mixture, the lower part of the page renders a bit ugly and varies between browsers. Switching to pure CSS should be safe in 2007, I guess. Please, please, someone do this for me. I tried, and failed, to get the layout right for the contents list in all browsers at the same time. The semantics of CSS is beyond my comprehension. Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request
Thomas Schilling wrote: However, regarding the modules list. I think it should be easy to have optional javascript functionality to toggle the visibility of the module tree. The default visibility could be customized using a cookie. I don't know how to make cookies work purely in Javascript - presumably there's a way, though. I'm accepting patches! Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request
On Sep 11, 2007, Simon Marlow wrote: Please, please, someone do this for me. I tried, and failed, to get the layout right for the contents list in all browsers at the same time. The semantics of CSS is beyond my comprehension. Cheers, Simon Hi Simon, On the page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/ index.html, you only need tables to display the foldable lists of modules (HTML tables were commonly used to display many things on a same line), but they can be replaced by nested lists with a bit of CSS : Check this page out : http://la.di.da.free.fr/haddock/ I can help further, if need be. Emmanuel ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Tiny documentation request
When the index is generated with a more recent Haddock, you get a search field, which does an incremental search, so this might perhaps be more what you are looking for. A more aesthetical note: We should really get rid of the ugly table/CSS layout mixture, the lower part of the page renders a bit ugly and varies between browsers. Switching to pure CSS should be safe in 2007, I guess. Please, please, someone do this for me. I tried, and failed, to get the layout right for the contents list in all browsers at the same time. The semantics of CSS is beyond my comprehension. Well, I'm not a web designer, but I did work with few of them, and it seems to me that you either create a table design in two hours or spend three days trying to create a CSS one and THEN create a table design in two hours. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
