Peter Hercek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jon Fairbairn wrote: > > A hyperlink of the form <a >> href="http://.../long-research-paper.html#interesting-paragraph";> >> interesting bit</a> is far more useful than one of the form >> <a href="http://.../long-research-paper.pdf";>look for >> section 49.7.3</a>. It may not seem significant, but when >> one is attempting to learn some new part of Haskell it's >> really off-putting. > > Pdfs are not that bad.
No, they (or at least links to them) typically are that bad! Mind you, as far as fragment identification is concerned, so are a lot of html pages. But even if the links do have fragment ids, pdfs still impose a significant overhead: I don't want stuff swapped out just so that I can run a pdf viewer; a web browser uses up enough resources as it is. And will Hoogle link into pdfs? > The above definitely works OK on windows, not sure about linux > pdf viewers. Works perfectly on my Fedora 7 systems. While this would be a definite improvement over having to search through the pdf, the delay and the fact that pdfs aren't as good as html for on-line viewing are still enough of an overhead that it's discouraging. If I'm using PHP (an execrable language), I can type the name (or something like the name) of any function into the search box on the PHP manual webpage and get useful (albeit often extremely irritating from a Haskell programmer's point of view) results straight back. Even including my language designer's distaste for PHP, this can make writing a wee bit of PHP a less onerous event than writing the same thing in Haskell -- definitely not what we want! -- Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
