On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Emily Ravenwood wrote: > On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Azalais Aranxta wrote: > > what I think Kirrily and I and some others > > (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) are saying is that it > > should be possible to set things up so that typing "foo:bar" does > > create a relationship between foo and bar. > > *slowly* That... strikes me as a very challenging function to form > well.
It probably is; if it can't be done, it can't be done. Some of the other suggestions strike me (non-programmer) as equally complex. > So, if I'm hearing you right, what you would like is for > typing foo:bar into the tag field of the compose-entry page to (upon > hitting save) cause "bar" to acquire a "parent = foo" in the database > if that isn't set already *and* cause that entry to be tagged with > the "bar" that is a child of "foo" in any event. As you point out, > this would mean that the delimiter, whether a colon or some other bit > of punctuation, could then never be used in the creation of single > tags because it would cause unwanted hierarchy. Yes, that's something I'd like to be able to do, so that I don't have to create that relationship from scratch on the mouseymouse page. > First off, this seems like something that would need to be set as a > user preference, since q.e.d. some people will not want to type the > string and some will. That done, what seems like the most break- > proof way to work the string option is to let the user specify a > delimiter somewhere in settings and then have any tag string typed > with *that* delimiter create hierarchy. That might be doable. I've no objection to personal choice of delimiters. I think the colon or the | would work best. > This is actually a very cool idea to have as an option, and might > also serve to help the form/javascript related accessibility problem. Yes. > *has a sudden, sparkly thought* Maybe, if this could be done, it > could also be turned to the purposes of making any current non- > related tags actually hierarchical, when hierarchy does arrive? Oh, > that would be so wonderful. Yes. It would. :D **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
