I think you are right that this is a user question not a dev one. However, not every user in BSC, dW, jRoller, IBM Blog Central is on the list and the developers here are trying to represent them.
Dealing with quotes consistently in the UI and queries to the db becomes a more complicated subject. For example typeahead, urls with quotes (escaped or unescaped). Technorati has a few tag phrases in their top 100 and they don't use quotes and I have not seen any other UI that shows them in quotes. On another note, technorati uses in /tag (notice singular) '+' as space and I use it as join in /tags (notice the plural). Additionally for them is equivalent if I type: /religion%20and%20philosophy or /religion+and+philosophy. Are you guys fine with my use of '+' which is in line with del.icio.us? -Elias Jeffrey Blattman wrote: > hi elias, > > this is really a roller-user, not roller-dev comment as i don't know > enough to vote because i don't understand the complexities mentioned in > simply storing it as "radio astronomy". > > all things being equal, as a user, i'd like to be able to enter quoted > tags like "radio astronomy" and i'd like to see the tag as "radio > astronomy" in the UI. > > but like i said, i have to bow out and yield to your insights of what > this would mean for the implementation. > > Elias Torres wrote: >> +1. That's why we are adding support for "radio astronomy" => >> radio_astronomy in our version of Roller so it matches tagging in our >> other products/applications that already use this approach. If you guys >> vote on it positively, I'll gladly commit it to Roller SVN for some >> agreed release, heck maybe even 3.1 :) >> >> -Elias >> >> Jeffrey Blattman wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> Craig L Russell wrote: >>> >>>> Bottom line, I think that there is value in tag "radio astronomy" >>>> which is more than the sum of "radio" and "astronomy". >>>> >>>> >
