I’ve been posting quite a bit over at Netscape.com and have notice a bug in the tagging system that destroys most of the tags submitted. In this story the tags were supposed to be: plagiarism, blogs, blogoshpere, cedo but came out as: abbr titleplagiarism, blogs, blogoshpere,cedoplagiarism…abbr. This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed it.
A quick search on google reveals that I’m not the only victim of this bug. In fact it reveals that quite a few stories have been hit by it. Without access to the server side code I can’t begin to help debug it. I could not see any preformating of the tags using javascript.
The bug does not appear in previews, it only shows it’s ugly head after the submission has been made.
August 1, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Nice catch!
This is the first I’ve heard of it, but I will most certainly add it to our bug list!
Thanks!
Best,
Alex Rudloff
Netsape.com Developer
August 1, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Add spaces after your commas, e.g.:
plagiarism, blogs _instead of_ plagiarism,blogs
August 1, 2006 at 5:22 pm
sure no problem, I’m glad I could help.
August 3, 2006 at 4:05 am
Could a feature be added so that we can see/edit our stories before we hit the ’submit’ button, maybe?
August 3, 2006 at 4:06 am
..and maybe a spell check?