in reply to POD: embedding/linking/displaying html and images on metacpan and github

For me, linking to (external) links works using the protocol (https:// in this case):

L<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=WWW-Mechanize-Chro
+me>

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Linking to (external) images still works, as exhibited by Spreadsheet::WriteExcel:

=begin html

<center>
<img src="http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl/data_validation.j
+pg" alt="The output from the above example"/>
</center>

=end html

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So, it seems that Emacs::PDE fell prey to the changes in the POD renderer, but things should be fixable. If you want to use dist-relative https:// links, I think you can use the following as the target:

L<https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Emacs-PDE/lisp/doc/pde/index.h
+tml>  - PDE User Guide

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... but MetaCPAN doesn't seem to render the HTML files as HTML, which I suppose is an anti-spam measure.

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Re^2: POD: embedding/linking/displaying html and images on metacpan and github
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 18, 2019 at 13:55 UTC
    > L<https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Emacs-PDE/lisp/doc/pde/index.html> - PDE User Guide

    Well ... my aim was to write multi-file hypertext which renders well on disk, metacpan and github.

    Your solution will link from local or github to metacpan.

    My imagined solution would be a distribution relative path inside L<>

    I thought I saw this already in the past, i.e. Module PODs linking to other internal pages generated from POD (expample, tutorial, tests, ...)

    Maybe this could be fixed by introducing a new scheme, something like dist: or relative: ?

    Cheers Rolf
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