[Haskell-cafe] Reading Haddock sources on hackage no longer possible with simple browsers?

[Johannes Waldmann]

> I recently noticed that it is no longer possible
> to read the source of a module, because extra type information
> (which is likely hidden in a modern browser)
> is inline with the actual sources.

I confirmed your example, reading with lynx and w3m.

It seems the extra text
is the methods of the type classes (mentioned after "deriving")
and it gets shown on on mouse-over in a graphical browser.

(Re: "nobody writes code like this" - the compiler does?
Some methods here seem auto-generated.)

Looks like a bug in haddock, then? (Or in lynx' handling of CSS?)
The actual HTML source looks legit, at least partially
(see example below)

This seems related:
https://github.com/haskell/haddock/pull/1197

I will open an issue on accessibility.

- J.W.

<span class="hs-keyword">deriving</span><span> </span><span
class="hs-special">(</span><span id="local-6989586621679046279"><span
id="local-6989586621679046281"><span
id="local-6989586621679046283"><span class="annot"><span
class="annottext">Int -> ISBN -> ShowS
[ISBN] -> ShowS
ISBN -> String
(Int -> ISBN -> ShowS)
-> (ISBN -> String) -> ([ISBN] -> ShowS) -> Show ISBN
forall a.
(Int -> a -> ShowS) -> (a -> String) -> ([a] -> ShowS)
-> Show a
showList :: [ISBN] -> ShowS
$cshowList :: [ISBN] -> ShowS
show :: ISBN -> String
$cshow :: ISBN -> String
showsPrec :: Int -> ISBN -> ShowS
$cshowsPrec :: Int -> ISBN -> ShowS
</span><span class="hs-identifier hs-var hs-var hs-var hs-var hs-var
hs-var hs-var hs-var">Show</span>