No, they are essentially the same. Different types were used to allow rendering the pages using different templates. At that time, it was the only way to allow rending pages with different templates. We still have that legacy. Ideally, we should convert all of them to /type/page and get rid of all other types.
Anand On 16-Mar-2013, at 9:32 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Ben, one difference seems to be that type/doc takes html markup, and > type/page uses MarkDown. When I look at the Infogami tutorial (type/doc) > in edit mode it appears as html. When I look at, say, the "Writing bots" > page (type/page) [1] I see what looks like MarkDown coding. > > I admit that I've never mastered MarkDown although, as with other wiki > markup rules, those who know it seem to love it. > > kc > [1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bots > > On 3/15/13 5:07 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: >> Hi Anand, all, >> >> I was wondering why there are separate types for "pages" and "docs". >> Both types have a title (a string) and a body (of type /type/text), >> but it seems that the text in a page is fully transformed from >> wikitext to HTML and docs are not, so that effectively, in docs only a >> subset of the wikitext is supported. >> >> I was doing a slight modification of the Infogami tutorial to make >> Firefox render it correctly, but noticed that a wikilink like >> [[/help]] was not turned into a link. However, the reason that Firefox >> underlined the whole table of contents when hovering over it was >> because <a ..></a> was transformed into <a/>. Linebreaks are also >> converted to <br>s (but possibly not always, must check this out a bit >> more). >> >> And then there is also /type/content (also just title and body), so >> I'm a bit confused with respect to the specific purposes that each of >> these types fulfill. >> >> Ben >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> [email protected] >> > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
