Legal Keywords in 2.17.3

[Myk Melez]

Jon Wilmoth wrote:

>This is what we use here.  I can definitely see how they could be the
>"bane of users' existence".  However we have a pretty small list ~8 (6
>are shown at a time) and it seems to work pretty well.  Users here
>weren't putting in keywords because they either didn't know what to put
>in (yes...even though the describekeywords gives them the list of
>possibilities.
>  
>
If you are comfortable with your users having JavaScript capabilities, I 
think the solution proposed in bug 80169 is a pretty good one.  It 
provides two drop-down menus next to the keywords field, one for adding 
keywords and one for removing them.  Keywords get added to/removed from 
the field as the user selects them from the lists.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80169

This aids discoverability, since users can look at the lists to see what 
they can add, while improving usability, since users can select an item 
from a list to add it instead of having to type it into a text field 
filled with other keywords and can remove keywords using the same kind 
of mechanism they used to add them.

>I'm not sure the keywords list would ever be very large since they have
>to apply to all products.
>  
>
Yeah, that needs to be fixed, and there's even a bug on it, although it 
hasn't gotten any traction for a while.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106592

-myk