Brethern,

I am mystified by CPAN Ratings. I have some old code that generates most of its output in HTML (much of which was written under Perl 4.X). I am considering replacing the old HTML-generating code with CPAN modules. My requirements aren't real specific — I wanted to browse the better HTML modules and see what was there I could use.

When I search for 'HTML' at CPAN Ratings, I get a long list of modules. None of them actually seem to have any ratings, just opportunities for me to rate them. What I want to see is a list of HTML modules, sorted by rating.

I think I've missed something important about CPAN Ratings. What?

throop

Update: fixed broken link.

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