Agylen

I’ve just finished implementing a cool new feature in The Open Source Zone. Tagging a project now presents a user interface similar to the new del.icio.us one. Click on the image below to see a screenshot.

This works by parsing the description of the project and looking for words that have already been used as tags before. It still lacks a little polishing: you can select the same tag more than once, for instance, even though it will only be stored once, so it’s more of an issue of UI consistency than of data integrity.

I think it’s a nice improvement over the previous version, where you had no help in selecting tags. I’m currently working on providing a better user experience as I think this is one of the keys to getting more users involved. Next, I’ll attack the interface for selecting similar projects.