URL Discussion: Ensuring a proper tag space

[Allen Gilliland <al...@sun.com>]

This is a separate subtopic of the general url discussion going on. 
This discussion centers around if/how we should define a proper tag 
space for each weblog.

The current proposal is only setup to allow tags to be passed in as a 
query parameter to the weblog collections view like this ...

/<weblog>?tags=tag+tag

While there is nothing functionally wrong with that it is actually 
against the current web standards of providing a path based tag space. 
Most sites (del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, etc) have standardized on 
the convention of a tag space like this ...

myurl/tag(s)/<tag>

I think it would be appropriate for Roller to follow that convention and 
thus include this in the set of new urls (when tagging support is ready) ...

/<weblog>/tag/<tag>

Thoughts?  Comments?

-- Allen

Re: URL Discussion: Ensuring a proper tag space

[Allen Gilliland <al...@sun.com>]

This discussion never really got started, so I assume that this isn't 
something people are too worried about.  Elias chimed in with his 
preference and I agree that we should provide a path based url tag space 
to conform to current standards, so that's what I am planning to do. 
I'll update the proposal today.

If anyone hasn't weighed in on this and wants to, now would be the time.

-- Allen


Elias Torres wrote:
> 
> Allen Gilliland wrote:
>> This is a separate subtopic of the general url discussion going on. This
>> discussion centers around if/how we should define a proper tag space for
>> each weblog.
>>
>> The current proposal is only setup to allow tags to be passed in as a
>> query parameter to the weblog collections view like this ...
>>
>> /<weblog>?tags=tag+tag
>>
>> While there is nothing functionally wrong with that it is actually
>> against the current web standards of providing a path based tag space.
>> Most sites (del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, etc) have standardized on
>> the convention of a tag space like this ...
>>
>> myurl/tag(s)/<tag>
>>
>> I think it would be appropriate for Roller to follow that convention and
>> thus include this in the set of new urls (when tagging support is ready)
>> ...
>>
>> /<weblog>/tag/<tag>
> 
> I prefer this one.
> 
>> Thoughts?  Comments?
>>
>> -- Allen
>>

Re: URL Discussion: Ensuring a proper tag space

[Elias Torres <el...@torrez.us>]

Allen Gilliland wrote:
> This is a separate subtopic of the general url discussion going on. This
> discussion centers around if/how we should define a proper tag space for
> each weblog.
> 
> The current proposal is only setup to allow tags to be passed in as a
> query parameter to the weblog collections view like this ...
> 
> /<weblog>?tags=tag+tag
> 
> While there is nothing functionally wrong with that it is actually
> against the current web standards of providing a path based tag space.
> Most sites (del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, etc) have standardized on
> the convention of a tag space like this ...
> 
> myurl/tag(s)/<tag>
> 
> I think it would be appropriate for Roller to follow that convention and
> thus include this in the set of new urls (when tagging support is ready)
> ...
> 
> /<weblog>/tag/<tag>

I prefer this one.

> 
> Thoughts?  Comments?
> 
> -- Allen
>