+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 non-framed, disparate, seperate documetation feels painful and slow. I would note though that the frames pages arn't currently working on hackage: e.g. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/text/0.7.1.0/doc/html/frames.html).
BTW, I would point out the two best documentation systems I've seen in other languages (javadoc[1] and rubydock[2]) are frame based and (IMO) very easy to navigate. [1] http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/ [2] http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/ Cheers, Tris On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:19:45PM +0200, David Waern wrote: > Hi > > Since version 2.4.0 Haddock has generated HTML output that uses frames > (index-frames.html) in addition to the normal output. We'd like to > deprecate this feature unless there is a significant amount of users. > The reason is two-fold: > > * 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! > > cc:ing cvs-ghc@ in case they have any users of the frames due to the > size of the GHC code base. (This might have been the the original > motivation for the feature). > > Thanks, > David > > _______________________________________________ > Cvs-ghc mailing list > cvs-...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
