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<div><br></div>The permuted indices are interesting. It means really committing to the style/naming conventions, doesn't it? In common lisp, hyphen separated names and I guess camel-case for Haskell. Though you could split on underscores *or* camel case...<div>
<br></div><div>I think multiple ways of indexing the data never hurts (except by confusing the user a bit). On that common lisp page I especially like how they've indented the words. Frankly I'd like a search box in any interface that displays more than two thingamajigs. That should be a UI commandment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I was expecting the objection of wasted server bandwidth for very large indices. I wasn't so worried about the client (even mobile) case. People can always press escape if a load takes too long. And it only happens if they manually drill down into "All". Perhaps a good idea would be to follow <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">the convention used elsewhere</a> and have a link with a size warning -- "All Entries <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">(1.6 MB HTML).</span>" That should keep people from clicking on it with their smartphone :-). I can tweak it again to do that if people like.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> -Ryan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Thomas Schilling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nominolo@googlemail.com">nominolo@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">For packages with many items in the index, these pages can get a bit<br>
huge. How about a permuted index like<br>
<<a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_Symbol.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_Symbol.htm</a>>?<br>
<br>
E.g., for your use case, you would go to E and then the row with all<br>
the "End" entries, which would contain all the names with "End"<br>
anywhere in their name.<br>
<br>
I don't know if page size can be a problem, but at least for mobile or<br>
otherwise low-bandwidth devices this can be a nice alternative.<br>
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On 24 October 2010 04:41, Ryan Newton <<a href="mailto:newton@mit.edu">newton@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> When I encounter a split-index (A-Z) page it can be quite frustrating if I<br>
> don't know the first letter of what I'm searching for. I want to use my<br>
> browser find! For example, tonight I wanted to look at all the functions<br>
> that END in "Window" in the Chart package -- no luck:<br>
> <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Chart/0.13.1/doc/html/doc-index.html" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Chart/0.13.1/doc/html/doc-index.html</a><br>
> Therefore I propose that even when generating the "A-Z" individual pages<br>
> that there also be an "All" option for the single-page version. Attached is<br>
> a patch against haddock's HEAD (darcs get <a href="http://code.haskell.org/haddock/" target="_blank">http://code.haskell.org/haddock/</a><br>
> right?) that implements this behavior. As an example, here is FGL's<br>
> documentation built with the patched haddock:<br>
> <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/newton/fgl_example_doc/doc-index.html" target="_blank">http://people.csail.mit.edu/newton/fgl_example_doc/doc-index.html</a><br>
> The great thing about hackage being centralized is that if people are happy<br>
> with this fix it can be widely deployed where it counts, and quickly!<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> -Ryan<br>
> P.S. At the other end of the spectrum, when considering a central index for<br>
> all of hackage (as in the below ticket) maybe it would be necessary to have<br>
> more than 26 pages, I.e. Aa-Am | An-Az or whatever.<br>
> <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/516#comment:6" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/516#comment:6</a><br>
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