🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jul 3, 2018 04:23 PM UTC:
Using underscores for spaces is not an option. The only two options are + used by urlencode() and %20 used by rawurlencode(). When a plus sign is part of a tag, it gets converted to %2B. The raw URL works with this, but the semantic one does not. Using urldecode() on the tag value should fix this.
I like the idea of being able to tag tag pages. Different tags will be appropriate for different kinds of pages. For example, a meta tag like "Object" could be suitable for particular tags like "Won by Checkmate", "Won by Capture", "Won by Stalemate", "Won by Total Elimination", "Won by Winning Race", etc. This is more flexible than giving something a parent tag, since it allows particular tags to have multiple meta tags.
We need to give some thought to what tags we will use. We can use the categories in the Item table as guidelines. Some of these categories are good, but there are some things I have wanted to change about them. In particular, there are a bunch of categories that are intended to imply a game played with the usual equipment, yet they would also be useful for games that are not played with the usual equipment. Using the What is a Chess Variant? page as a guide, we could use tags that indicate various ways that a game could deviate from Chess, and sometimes tags for how a game is similar to Chess. A tag such as "Playable with a Chess Set" may be suitable for games played with the usual equipment. But it might be overkill to include tags for several features common to Chess, such as "Won by Checkmate", "Normal Castling", "2D", etc. Tags such as these would cover most of the variants on the site, which would make them less useful for navigation. "Playable with a Chess Set" is useful though, because it is more narrow than these, and sometimes a Chess set is the only equipment someone has for playing Chess variants.
Using underscores for spaces is not an option. The only two options are + used by urlencode() and %20 used by rawurlencode(). When a plus sign is part of a tag, it gets converted to %2B. The raw URL works with this, but the semantic one does not. Using urldecode() on the tag value should fix this.
I like the idea of being able to tag tag pages. Different tags will be appropriate for different kinds of pages. For example, a meta tag like "Object" could be suitable for particular tags like "Won by Checkmate", "Won by Capture", "Won by Stalemate", "Won by Total Elimination", "Won by Winning Race", etc. This is more flexible than giving something a parent tag, since it allows particular tags to have multiple meta tags.
We need to give some thought to what tags we will use. We can use the categories in the Item table as guidelines. Some of these categories are good, but there are some things I have wanted to change about them. In particular, there are a bunch of categories that are intended to imply a game played with the usual equipment, yet they would also be useful for games that are not played with the usual equipment. Using the What is a Chess Variant? page as a guide, we could use tags that indicate various ways that a game could deviate from Chess, and sometimes tags for how a game is similar to Chess. A tag such as "Playable with a Chess Set" may be suitable for games played with the usual equipment. But it might be overkill to include tags for several features common to Chess, such as "Won by Checkmate", "Normal Castling", "2D", etc. Tags such as these would cover most of the variants on the site, which would make them less useful for navigation. "Playable with a Chess Set" is useful though, because it is more narrow than these, and sometimes a Chess set is the only equipment someone has for playing Chess variants.