Anand, is there any difference in the HTML/CSS that wraps them? I ask because of that problem I ran into with editing the /developer pages -- there is HTML there that displays the various developer links, and that's not within the editable page. Presumably other pages would have other HTML "wrappers".
kc On 3/16/13 8:30 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 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] > > -- 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]
