David Waern wrote:

2008/11/6 Wolfgang Jeltsch :

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* Add framed view of the HTML documentation After many years with many people telling us that frames are bad, you add

Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2008 00:21 schrieb David Waern: frame support to Haddock? Hmm.

You should discuss this with Simon Marlow, as it was his idea. Thomas Schilling implemented it. Personally, I think the frames are quite handy, although not that pretty in their current form. More importantly, you don't need to use them if you don't want to. Haddock still generates the normal index.html as well as frames.html.

It wasn't really my idea, it came from something Simon Michael did for darcs, although it doesn't seem to be working now: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/014084.html I mentioned it to Thomas, who implemented something similar for Haddock. I think the conclusion we came to was that frames are probably not the right way to go (surprise), but we'd still like a better layout for Haddock pages. It's looking a bit dated now, and you have to scroll through pages of useless synopsis to get to the real docs. Also the layout is internally horrible, using lots of fixed-size table cells - I played around with lots of different approaches to the layout at the time, but it had to work in IE6 which meant that most things didn't work. I'd really love it if someone could give Haddock a facelift. Cheers, Simon