The plugin page: http://tagedit.webwork-albrecht.de/index.html

Love the plugin, actually going to implement tonight! Would love to see callbacks though, so that we can use ajax to save tags on remove/add if need be..

Nice work!

EDIT

Would be better if the names of the elements were the same so that this could submitted as an array, the current method requires quite a bit of processing..

Documentation?

"elementname dows not match the expected format" whats the format expected?

Does it not support standard jQuery selectors? Why are you using a .find() in the example?

I'm using smartTextBox for a project: http://wayofspark.com/projects/smarttextbox/

I can't see any immediate differences between the two, how does Tagedit differ?

i think the big thing is that this is based on jquery-ui, not just plain jquery. extra dependency, but if you're already using it, then just reusing the autocomplete plugin is a win.

smartTextBox is also GPL whilst the OP is CC Attribution.

I first saw this concept on Quora - anyone knows if they were the first?

I suppose using this for tagging stuff has two positive side effects:

1) You can now use longer tags, with whitespace, capitalization, etc.

2) Duplication of tags is much smaller.

Kudos to the author.

I first encountered effective end-user tagging over a decade ago in a bookmarking program named PowerMarks (no longer developed).

It would ("instantaneously") generate an automatic set of tags based on page content and metadata. This could very rapidly edited in the form of a simple, comma-separated list of text.

Bookmark search consisted of typing in a simple, comma-separated list (IIRC). The current contents were continuously parsed and partial matching performed to produce a ranked list of matching entries. With thousands of bookmarks, the desired entry could usually be identified and followed within a second or three.

(There were also date fields and some other fields, that could help in clustering and could be used in ranking)

The combination of a tagging categorization, and the very efficient interface, made it a joy to use and extremely useful.

This thread's product appears, from the video, to be moving the interface portion of web-based tagging in what for me would be a "right" (correct) direction. Make the tagging rapid, and the interface painless, and perhaps tagging will really take off as an end-user interface.

Note: I followed vijaydev's link, as the ur-parent's link is currently unresponsive.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596455

Wow ! This is exactly something I was looking for : adding tags the way you add recipients to a facebook inbox message. Sometimes, Ideas really are in the Air...