On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:07, Morbus Iff wrote:
* add tags (keep your original checked, check new one).
Hi, Morbus! First off, let me say "great design work" on the UI. It's blindingly obvious how it works, and I think even novices will find it intuitive. One small suggestion, though. The particular line quoted above scares me very much. I think that novice users who agree "yes, I should switch over to the suggested tag" will instinctively check that but will forget to *uncheck* the existing tag they hand-entered. May I suggest radio buttons (choose one only) instead of checkboxes for this selection process? This would have the side-effect of also preventing the user from choosing more than one of the suggested similar tags, which IMO is a *benefit*. If the point of the similar tags feature is to rationalize tags, then you really *don't* want a person choosing "Governor Joe Schmoe", "Joe Schmoe", *and* "Mr. Joe Schmoe" anyway, do you? Nice work, though! If this pans out, I think it will very much broaden the use-cases where free-tag taxonomy is useful. My commendations on all of your work in this area. The versatility of Drupal's existing controlled taxonomy is one of Drupal's very best architectural features, in my opinion. What you are doing is to seamlessly extend the range of things that taxonomy can do, without breaking anything that's already there. Kudos. Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them scott@4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/scott.pubkey