Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Is anyone using Haddock's support for frames?

2010-05-06 Thread David Waern
2010/5/4 Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, David Waern david.wa...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/4 Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl: Somewhat OT, but is there a place where we can request/review features in the new HTML presentation of Haddock. Are there any mockups of

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is anyone using Haddock's support for frames?

2010-05-05 Thread Tristan Allwood
+1 to keep it until equivalent functionality is made mainline I've had tinyurl.com/haskelldoc aliased to the main frame page (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/frames.html) and used it extensively on a daily basis for GHC libraries and GHC API browsing. Navigating the current

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is anyone using Haddock's support for frames?

2010-05-05 Thread Thomas Schilling
Ok, I think I should clarify. I believe that the framed view with a long list of modules on the left and the haddocks on the right is still useful. What I don't mind getting rid off is the third frame which shows the contents of the mini_* files. I would have preferred to have something similar

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is anyone using Haddock's support for frames?

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Schilling
I think it will no longer be needed once Haddock outputs table-less layout code. Frames caused problems with the back-button, so they weren't really an improvement. A simple CSS float:right + smaller font on the div containing the index would be a lot better. I think it would be best to keep

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is anyone using Haddock's support for frames?

2010-05-04 Thread Sean Leather
* We probably want to replace the frames with something more modern (like a sidebar on the same page) in the future * We are rewriting the HTML backend and it would be nice to avoid unnecessary work So if you're using this feature and want to keep it, please speak up! Somewhat OT, but

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is anyone using Haddock's support for frames?

2010-05-04 Thread David Waern
2010/5/4 Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl: Somewhat OT, but is there a place where we can request/review features in the new HTML presentation of Haddock. Are there any mockups of what the pages might look like? I've had some ideas pop around my head every time I look at documentation. ;)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Is anyone using Haddock's support for frames?

2010-05-04 Thread Evan Laforge
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, David Waern david.wa...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/4 Sean Leather leat...@cs.uu.nl: Somewhat OT, but is there a place where we can request/review features in the new HTML presentation of Haddock. Are there any mockups of what the pages might look like? I've had