tagcloud-brainstorming

This is for brainstorming ideas around tagcloud formats

See also

• tagcloud-examples

First pass analysis

From a visual and logical perspective, tagclouds have a reasonably small number of common components, and largely all focus on the same problem. They are typically

• an alphabetically ordered list of links to a tag space — occasionally the order is by popularity.
• the links are usually single words

While it is possible to imagine other ways of representing tags, like most recent, using a tag cloud, in the examples considered all show popularity, albeit over different time scales. Typically the times scales are

• most commonly, all time popularity
• less frequently popularity over the last week and
• popularity ver the last 24 hours

On the ground, things become more complicated.

the root elements

Typically, but not always, there is a root element, with a class or id value. Root elements include the following elements

• p
• div
• ul
• td

And are given the following class and/or id values

• class=