[dev] [cvs] commit: incubator/oscar/lib Oscar.php

Duck duck at obala.net
Thu Sep 20 08:35:15 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 18 of September 2007 19:42:59 Michael Rubinsky wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree completely with using the title text as the tags
> value if no tags are supplied...at least not this way.
>
> First, we provide an input box for tags the user could fill in if they
> wanted.  If they leave it blank, that's the user's option to not use
> any tags.  Automatically filling in the same text as the title
> circumvents the user's decision to not enter a tag.
>
> Second, we would pollute that tag cloud with words such as 'a' 'and'
> 'the' etc...
>
> Third, we already provide a means to search the title text, which
> could be combined with the tag search if desired.
>
> Was there a specific case you had in mind that you wouldn't want to
> allow an empty tag field?

As I see in my blogs (Thomas) rare users fills tags. But I agree that those 
who enter them, enter more  realistic tags.  So if you don't like to 
auto-fill tags, maybe moving tags in its own table will be more appropriate.

Duck


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