[Sigia-l] Tag separators in text fields - standardise please

[martin.fietkiewicz at gmail.com]

i totally disagree with how Flickr jams my quoted multiword tags into a
single string with no spaces ("a pen is..." becomes "apenis").

typing commas between words takes a negligible amount of time.  it takes
care of single and multi-word entries, it blends well with CSV file
structure, and it's how people write lists anyway.  i don't know why ever
thought spaces were a good separator.  they make taxonomy-baby-jebus weep.

martin fietkiewicz


2008/7/30 Scott Nelson <skot at penguinstorm.com>

> Paola Kathuria wrote:
> > I would like sites to standardise on a space delimiter, quoting
> > multi-word tags.
> >
> > Here's my reasoning: I reckon that most tags are single word and
> > so NOT having to write commas between each would be easier and
> > quicker to type.
>
> Quoting some, but not all, tags is inconsistent and non-intuitive.
>
> It's ironic that you're asking for "standardized" tag entry and then
> advocating a method of delimiting which would require knowledge of two
> different methods. Alternatively, people could quote ALL tags, but
> that's needless and non-natural.
>
> Commas have always made more sense to me, in part because of your
> comment that it's how people usually write lists. It's more intuitive,
> and the input style is the same for single word and multi word tags: the
> user doesn't have to learn two techniques.
>
> I like del.icio.us but I hate it's tag entry format which uses, of
> course, spaces.
>
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