Two reasons:

  1. I haven't had the time to write a good POD-to-HTML converted to run across my local installation. :-) I wrote one once that worked decently, actually, but it indirectly depended on a bunch of modules I didn't want to keep and it had a few niggles of its own; rather than fix the latter, I trashed it in order to start fresh with a different set of the former; but I haven't gotten around to writing that replacement since.

  2. When I'm writing stuff on the web, I like to stick in hyperlinks for easy lookup for readers. It helps to have somewhere for the links to point to. *grin*

That said I don't like that new site particularly much, nor do I like Kobe's rendition. The search.cpan.org look and featureset is exactly what I want/like.

Update: actually, Kobesearch isn't as bad as I remember it; it had been a while since I went there. I still prefer the way the navigation is set up at search.cpan.org, but Kobesearch is quite nice as well now.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: An alternative Perldoc site by Aristotle
in thread An alternative Perldoc site by bart

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