On 02/03/2008, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Just for clarification, are we still talking category intersections? Or would a separate tagging system, in parallel to categories, be a better way?
- No messing with the existing category system
- Tagging/untagging without editing (?)
- No need to alter categories (tree) to fit new tagging scheme (flat),
preserving categories and not cluttering tagging with "category leftovers"
- Selective seeding of tags with categories
- Make (technically) sure tags are always "defined", so multiple
equivalent tags, can use integer IDs internally, etc.
Hopefully something that can replace the category system once the bugs are shaken out, such that the present microscopically small sub-sub-sub-sub-categories can be replaced with an intersection of tags.
That is: the main difference being in the back-end implementation, because we can't just run frequent queries on the intersection of ten categories without crippling the database server.
- d.