When you click Edit, the textbox could appear not where it does now, but on the left, in place of the tag list, with one tag per line.
Pros:
- no more underscores. I'm sick and tired of typing them.
- don't have to keep scrolling up to look at the pic and then back again
- easier to see whether a certain tag's already there, as they're all lined up
Cons:
- have to use ctrl-s or something rather than the enter key to submit
- have to work out where to put the other editable fields, and the Related Tags tool
I deleted the other cons I'd typed after realising that if fancy javascript rich-textbox code were used, we could keep the colour-coding and the ability to click the links while editing. The way wiki and tag links are updated as you type could be made more intuitive by greying-out any "?" link that's next to a blank line.
Rather than using ugly AJAX sh'nannigans to colour-code tags as you type them, the page would remember the colour of each tag that was there when you started editing. Tags you've changed or added would be black until you hit Submit - arguably another small win.
Thoughts?
Updated by jxh2154