What's the common visual element between 43things, Astray Recipes and Popular Tags on Flickr? A tag cloud of course! Now that tagging is the new meta, tag clouds aid you to visualise the distribution of tags. The HTML::TagCloud module generates HTML tag clouds in a nice CSS-friendly way so you can style them how you want. Add a tag cloud to your website now!
Brought to you from Jesse's minion...
Brought to you from Jesse's minion...
You've been sold, again? Or is this some private arrangement?
Re:Déjà Vu?
jesse on 2005-07-01T03:07:18
This is apparently part of my new role as the bad-idea guy. Someone shows me some neat code they've got.
I ask if it's on CPAN.
They say no.
I tell them it should be.
They make it happen.
This week, I got chromatic and Leon.
I win.
Thanks, Leon!Re:Déjà Vu?
chromatic on 2005-07-04T20:19:27
Darnit, I had blissfully forgotten about that!
If you check Technorati, you’ll find their tag cloud is implemented using nested <em>s – deeper, the more common a tag is. This is a semantically rich way to signify the popularity of a tag (screen readers have a chance to interpret it meaningfully, f.ex.), and it can be styled just as well as your approach is.
Be nice if you added support for this approach.
