[development] Human readable taxonomy URLs

[Dries Buytaert]

Essentially you have to generate your URLs like this:

     * <a href="http://apple.com/ipod" rel="tag"></a>
     * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity" rel="tag"></a>
     * <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/chihuahua" rel="tag"></a>

If rel="tag" is specified, tools like technorati will use the last  
word of the URL as being the tag (see http://www.technorati.com/help/ 
tags.html).  The tags would be respectively:

     * ipod
     * gravity
     * chihuahua

Drupal, however, generates:

     * <a href="/taxonomy/term/15" rel="tag" title="">
     * <a href="/taxonomy/term/16" rel="tag" title="">

so microformat aware crawlers pick it up as being:

     * 15
     * 16

When you use freetagging, like I do on my blog, having to map  
'taxonomy/term/15' on something crawler friendly like 'tag/drupal' is  
kinda tiresome -- especially when you have many tags.  The current  
user interface doesn't lend itself to this.

Suggestions on how we can make this easier, and how we can make it so  
that Drupal generates URLs can automatically take advantage of the  
latest developments in microformats (like Technorati and shortly,  
Microsoft)?

Maybe there should be a checkbox in the taxonomy.module to enable/ 
disable the auto-generation of clean URLs?  Or maybe there should be  
a better UI to mass alias taxonomy URLs?

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Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/