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
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