On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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".
>

If it's the nav bar that you're talking about, it's here:
https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/macros/Subnavigation.html

What needs to be changed besides the Launchpad link?  I can create a pull
request for Anand to merge.

Tom


>
> 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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