Ooh, or semicolons in Vista: http://lifehacker.com/software/vista/geek-to-live--tag-files-and-save-se arches-in-windows-vista-232891.php
Comma seems better than that, as the natural list operator, at least for english. (Are there significantly many commalike characters in other languages?) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Schachter > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ydn-delicious] Re: starting del 2.0 and more > communication from me > > Space-delimited things is a command-line thing: $ perl > ./blah.pl "argument 1" arg2 arg3 etc. > > So, yeah, we are coming up with some test cases and unit > tests to go with. > > [ san francisco ] => what to do here? > [ a b "c d" ] => probably 3 tags. > [ a b, c d ] => probably 2 tags. > [ a b ] => ?? > > And so on. I'm thinking of changing that "(space delimited)" > thing to be a clickable widget to let you change the default, > and someday future new users will default to comma, or > something like that. > > As for network, we plan to do something like that. I would > like to expose more of your social sphere throughout more of > the site. The problem with it is that organizing the data for > that is quite hard... > > As an aside, I don't get the point of OPML; seems way > overcomplicated and underspecified for something that doesn't > seem very complicated... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:35 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: starting del 2.0 and more > > communication from me > > > > > > Joshua Schachter writes: > > > Dots: people that wrong way too often (I see "de.licio.us" and > > > "deli.cio.us" way more often than I would like) and I'm really > > > wondering if we should just primarily move to delicious.com > > (and make > > > del.icio.us redirect properly or work etc) > > > > > > On commas vs spaces: I am thinking of letting it be > default spaces > > > (for long-time users) or default commas (for new users) > or perhaps > > > some middle ground guessing, if the user does [ w x "y z" ] > > or [ w, x, > > > y z ] etc. > > > > I like the middle-ground guessing idea; if the user uses > the "wrong" > > form > > -- [ w, x, y z ], in my opinion, *COMMAS SUCK* ;) -- accept > the input, > > but issue a minor warning about it. (You could probably > safely assume > > that the presence of a comma in the tag list indicates > > comma-separation.) > > > > Feature req: any chance of native OPML export from the Network, and > > some kind of hotlinks/spicylinks-style algorithm for link selection > > there? > > It'd be cool to render spicylinks obsolete ;) (see > > http://taint.org/2006/09/06/152615a.html) > > > > --j. > > > > > Joshua > > > > > > > Hi Joshua, > > > > > > > > I'm looking forward to the new features. Regarding your > > questions > > > > in the blog post, I vote for keeping the dots in the name, and > > > > keeping space separated tags. > > > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Joshua Schachter" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I just posted to the blog, and I want to start the > thread here: > > > > > http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2007/02/overdue_new_yea.html > > > > > > > > > > We've begun working on a new backend and redesign for > > > > delicious, and I > > > > > want to restart the conversation as to where we are and > > > > should be going. > > > > > > > > > > There's still lots to do (we've just begun) and not a > > lot has been > > > > > decided yet, but I want to figure out how to be louder > > > > about what we > > > > > are working on. > > > > > > > > > > I apologize for the silence lately and will work harder > > to end that. > > > > > > > > > > Joshua > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
