[TYPO3-hci] Less ways to do it...

[Michael Scharkow]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:

> Think of page types as file types. It is a very practical concept. In 
> our case there are no reason to distinguish between "Standard" and 
> "Advanced" in this way - that distinction should be handled with tabs. 
> Also "Not in menu" is obviously a thing to change.
> But shortcut, external URL, mount point? Those are very practical to 
> keep distinct because they do radically different things than a normal 
> page - just like a sys_folder is much different! Even for your idea of 
> steering the page module display by page type this comes in handy as 
> shortcut and external url pages would call for different display!

Thanks for summarizing so nicely my intention: The concept of page type 
is flawed not technically or in terms of flexibility, but in semantics:

*IF* as you yourself state a sysfolder or shortcut is radically 
different than a plain page, why can they be used interchangeably, why 
does a user have to create a page instead of a sysfolder? The typical 
user does not care about the implementation or historical reasons for 
having page types.

Greetings,
Michael