Well, wait. del & flickr support URL encoded strings as tags so you can
have multi-word tags, it's just kinda grotty ... URLs I'd tagged
"language detection"
http://del.icio.us/spidaman/%22language%2Bdetection%22
Disallowing spaces in tags forces people to puzzle over alternate word
separators (plus signs, underscores, periods or just mushing words
together), which is awkward. Right or wrong, Technorati normalizes case
and word separators at query time, ergo these are equivalent:
http://technorati.com/tag/map+reduce
http://technorati.com/tag/mapreduce
http://technorati.com/tag/map.reduce
Personally I'd prefer to see a combo-box populator (IIRC, that's how
ecto and flock handle tag creation) implemented in AJAX/javascript. The
single text field text entry UIs force awkward word delimiting. Sorry,
I'm not volunteering on the combo box (wish I could), cross browser
javascript dev has always been a slow rtfm process for me.
-Ian
David M Johnson wrote:
On Jan 14, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Allen Gilliland wrote:
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 08:21, David M Johnson wrote:
On Jan 6, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Allen Gilliland wrote:
I prefer the del.icio.us style, where spaces are separators and are
not supported in tags. I think this is the easiest for users to
understand and work with.
That's not true. Both Technorati Tags and del.icio.us tags allow
spaces in tags. I believe we should do the same thing.
I'm pretty sure that del.icio.us doesn't allow multi-word tags or tags
with spaces ...
http://del.icio.us/help/tags
"Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to any bookmark. Tags
can't contain quotation marks or whitespace, but are otherwise
unrestricted."
By golly, you're right. And flickr.com is the same way.
Technorati on the other hand *does* support spaces within tags.
So I guess I'm starting to agree with you on this one.
- Dave
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