https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28850

--- Comment #4 from Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> 2011-06-02 
21:29:23 UTC ---
Gregor: I am not convinced that users are more familiar with forms that mutate
themselves and add new fields. That's pretty rare.

However, the widget could work better. Or at least it should notice that a
category has been left un-added.

The main problem is that we have to be ready for categories that have spaces in
them. Other 'tagging' interfaces use the convention that when the user presses
space, the tag is complete. So they either convert a textarea of
space-delimited tags afterwards, or they transform the text as you type it.

However, our Categories have spaces within them, and we want people to mostly
use pre-existing Categories, so we want a single field that autocompletes. And
we need some signal that the Category name is complete, that isn't shown by
typing whitespace. Hitting return would be worse since that's the convention
for submitting a form. So that's why there is a button.

I tried to avoid this button but I couldn't see how. If anyone has a better
idea please make it known.

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