OK, so there were already a thousand solutions for converting pod to HTML, but I wasn't especially happy with any of them. Things I wanted were:

• Clean-looking XHTML and/or HTML5 output.
• Unicode support. ☻
• Good syntax highlighting for Perl code samples within the pod.
• Links to metacpan.org by default rather than search.cpan.org.

And so I've cobbled together a solution using Pod::Simple, PPI::HTML, HTML::HTML5::Parser, HTML::HTML5::Writer, XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint and Moo, and released it as TOBYINK::Pod::HTML.