cpan.org ToC display disparity

stevieb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I might be imagining things, but I'm sure that in the past, when I went to look up a module on cpan.org that I'd have a table of contents that contained a module's functions/methods list within a link/URL format, all nice and neat in order.

I don't see that now. Have things changed?

Something just doesn't seem the same as I'm used to. I would swear that in the past, I'd be able to go to one of my own distribution's CPAN pages and reference a function at the top of the ToC, click on it, and dive right into the definition. I'm certain I've used this type of reference for my own, and many others' work.

Am I mistaken?

-stevieb

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Re: cpan.org ToC display disparity by soonix (Canon) on Mar 28, 2023 at 08:38 UTC
Update to previous post: Looks like "size matters". If I resize the desktop browser window, the ToC disappears as soon as the content part needs a certain threshold of the column space. On mobile that threshold seems to be reached even in landscape mode...	[reply]
Re: cpan.org ToC display disparity by soonix (Canon) on Mar 28, 2023 at 08:29 UTC
On the desktop, e.g. DBI, shows me the ToC on the right hand side, with a [hide] link. On mobile, this same Toc shortly appears and then disappears. I haven't found (yet) how to unhide it on mobile - not even by switching to "Desktop Website"...	[reply]
Re: cpan.org ToC display disparity by Anonymous Monk on Mar 28, 2023 at 10:00 UTC
Yeah this is new ish bug The new black metacpan (meta::cpan throws away brand). I cant see author or dist name its hidden by black bar	[reply]
Re: cpan.org ToC display disparity by kcott (Archbishop) on Mar 28, 2023 at 08:33 UTC
G'day stevieb, What you're describing is the layout on `metacpan.org`. I just tried three arbitrary modules to check this hadn't changed: https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Util https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::CSV The TOC reflects the module's POD. If that is poorly written, or absent, you won't get what you're expecting. You actually wrote `cpan.org`. Did you mean that or `metacpan.org`? If `cpan.org`, can you provide some example URLs so that we can see what you're looking at. — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: cpan.org ToC display disparity by Anonymous Monk on Mar 28, 2023 at 09:46 UTC
I might be imagining things, but I'm sure that in the past, when I went to look up a module on cpan.org that I'd have a table of contents that contained a module's functions/methods list within a link/URL format, all nice and neat in order. I remember complaining about that like 5 years ago when search.cpan.org became metacpan. On the old cpan the table of contents of a pod was embedded in the same logical fixed location. The metacpan puts the toc in different places depending on canvas size and sometimes it even disappears! This is all by design, bad web design...	[reply]
[SOLVED] Re: cpan.org ToC display disparity by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 28, 2023 at 12:59 UTC
I'm getting old, and my eyesight isn't what it used to be, so apparently on my Macbook, I enlarged the text of the page at some point, so I could read it. Decreasing the font size by one on the MetaCPAN page allowed the function list to appear on the right side of the page as mentioned by soonix.	[reply]
Re: [SOLVED] Re: cpan.org ToC display disparity by Arunbear (Prior) on Mar 28, 2023 at 13:52 UTC
There was a time not too long ago when the TOC used to appear at the top of the page (e.g. archive snapshot). I remember thinking it had been removed when they changed it to appear on the right-hand side (where I wouldn't normally look for it).	[reply]


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