Feature priorities
Here are my current priorities:
- RSS feeds (with HTML version and a blog-widget)
- User-defined fields
- Add Dewey, author clicking
- Book-level view, showing who else has it and what they're tagging it
- Improve some graphics
posted by Tim at 6:06 PM
6 Comments:
Hate to ask for something else to be added, but it would be sweet if there was a list of tags I've already created from which I could select (a la del.ico.us) so I don't have to retype tag strings for every book I enter. This would help me remember that I already have a tag called literature.espionage and don't need to create a new tag called literature.spies.
Thanks. I should have added that. Someone else wanted tag completion too. I appreciate the feedback.
Howdy. Nice Thing. Might I suggest that you get the Thing using Unicode/UTF-8 asap? I tried adding a title in Cyrillic, and it came out a right mess of double-escaped HTML entities!
Flickr and del.icio.us have been using Unicode ab initio, as far as I know, which is a real boon for non-Latin-1 users. OTOH, messing with charsets too far down the line is likely to be painful.
All the best - keep up the good work!
Thanks for writing. I figured this was a problem. I saw a blog review in Chinese that said, I quote, "[incomprehensible characters] unicode/UTF-8 [incomprehensible characters]," so I figured others were having the problem too.
I'm adding it to my list. Quite frankly, I'm not sure what's involved.
Tim
In brief and rough, the web scripts should ensure all text processed is correctly encoded on the way in and out (PHP and Perl both support this), and web pages need to declare themselves as UTF-8.
I'm not sure whether the backend db needs to support UTF8 explicitly: it's probably a good idea, though earching and sorting can still work ok, even when non-Western characters are encoded as XML numerical entities. (But, of course they'll take up a lot more space!)
Всего хорошего!
Mass tagging of entries. This may be possible but if it is I can't figure out how to. The tag I have in mind is the purely private, but immensely useful one of "bookshelf" -- I want to be able to sit in front of a bookshelf with the laptop and then tag everything I have entered with "Bedroom" or "Study by Window"" or whatever I choose to name the shelves.
For some of us, this is th esingle most important use of a library cataloguer -- finding the books which must be _somewhere_ in the house.
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