CSS Themes

David Waern david.waern at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 06:38:38 EDT 2010


2010/7/21 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 21/07/2010 07:13, Mark Lentczner wrote:
>> > So, this leads me to ponder two questions:
>> >
>> > A) How important is it to develop the Style switcher? 1, 3, and 5
>> > point to it being a minor feature - perhaps used primarily by theme
>> > creators. 2 and 4 suggest we fully develop to enable user choice.
>> >
>> > B) How open will the community be to our designing the new look of
>> > Haskell documentation?
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> I vote for:
>>
>>  * Work on a really nice theme that we all pretty much agree on.
>>    Right now, Thomas's is looking like the front runner to me.
>>
>>  * Make this the default Haddock style.
>>
>>  * Don't include a style switcher in the generated Haddock, at
>>    least by default.  It's a knob that most people don't need,
>>    and we should focus on doing one thing really well; delegating
>>    choice to the user is a cop-out.
>>
>>  * Nevertheless, make it easy to switch styles for developers
>>    who want to style their own API documentation.
>>
>> So to answer your Qs directly:
>>
>>  A) not terribly important, make it an optional feature
>>  B) I don't think this will a problem.  If you're worried then
>>     you could have a beta phase and ask for comments, but that's
>>     likely to lead to a huge thread on haskell-cafe with low
>>     SNR.  There are enough people involved in this effort
>>     with the skills to produce a great result, so let's just
>>     do it.
>
> +1

+1 :-)



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